Amazon ZPL label viewer
Amazon Buy Shipping and Veeqo can download your labels as a .zpl file, one text file with every label in it. Open it here to see each label, then download a single 4 × 6 PDF with all of them for any printer, or send the file as it is to a Zebra.
Your file is downloading.
Free, with no daily limit. A free account also saves your designs and gives you an API key.
How to do it
- Press Open file above and pick the .zpl (or the .zip) Amazon downloaded. You see each label and the total.
- If the labels look too big or cut off, switch the density to 300 dpi: Amazon offers ZPL at both 203 and 300 dpi.
- Press Download PDF and print at 100% scale, not "fit to page".
Why you got a .zpl file
In Buy Shipping, the label format you pick last sticks: choose ZPL once and every bulk download after that is a .zpl. Veeqo sets it under Settings, Printing templates, Labels. Amazon support often doesn't know the format; it is the language of Zebra thermal printers, and a normal printer prints it as a page of code.
203 or 300 dpi
Amazon can write ZPL for 203 dpi or 300 dpi printers. A 4 × 6 label is 812 dots wide at 203 dpi and 1218 at 300 dpi, so the ^PW line near the top of the file tells you which one you have. A 300 dpi label printed at 203 dpi comes out half again as large and runs off the label.
Got a PDF instead of ZPL?
Amazon usually hands out FBA box labels as a PDF, often several to a sheet. Crop each to 4 × 6 with the shipping label resizer, or turn it into ZPL with PDF to ZPL.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes: preview and download one file at a time with all its labels, without an account, with no daily limit and no watermark. Paid plans add batches of files, the API and support.
Can I print a ZPL file on a Mac?
Not on a normal printer: macOS has no way to send raw ZPL to it. Convert it to PDF here and print the PDF; that works on any computer.
How many labels can one file have?
The viewer opens up to 5,000 labels from one file, and the PDF comes out whole.
Does the preview match what the printer draws?
It uses an engine written to emulate Zebra's ZPL II. Darkness and media can change a physical print, so test one label before a full run.
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