Avery 5160 template
Avery 5160 is the default American address label. If someone hands you a sheet of labels without saying which one, it is usually this one.
Dimensions
- Label size
- 1" x 2-5/8"
- Labels per sheet
- 30 (3 across × 10 down)
- Sheet size
- US Letter, 8.5in × 11in
- Top margin
- 0.5in
- Side margin
- 0.1875in
- Horizontal pitch
- 2.75in
- Vertical pitch
- 1in
Geometry source: Avery template 5160 / LibreOffice label database (Avery Letter Size).
Check the fit before you print on stock. Print the blank template on plain paper, hold it against a sheet of Avery 5160 up to the light, and check the boxes land on the die-cuts. That is worth doing with any label template on any printer — paper size, driver margins and print scaling all shift a sheet, and one sheet of plain paper is cheaper than one sheet of labels.
What Avery 5160 is
The 5160 is a US Letter sheet carrying 30 rectangular labels in three columns of ten. Each label is one inch tall and two and five-eighths inches wide, which fits a name, a street line, and a city-state-postcode line at a readable size without crowding.
It is a laser sheet. The face stock and adhesive are specified for the heat of a laser fuser, which is why Avery also sells the identical layout as the 8160 for inkjet printers. The grid is the same to the thousandth of an inch — only the material differs.
What people use it for
Bulk postal mail, mostly. Holiday card runs, invoices, membership mailings, class lists, and return addresses. Thirty to a sheet is the sweet spot where a couple of hundred addresses is two or three sheets rather than a stack.
It is also the format most often meant when a form, a charity, or an office manager says "Avery labels" without a number, so if you are matching stock someone else bought, 5160 is the safe first guess.
Printing 5160 labels from a spreadsheet
Load your file above, assign one spreadsheet column to each line of the label, and the preview updates as you go. Three lines is the comfortable maximum at this height; a fourth will fit but the type gets small.
If you have already peeled labels off a sheet, set the start position so printing begins at the first unused cell instead of wasting the remainder.
When to use something else
The 5160 is the right default and the wrong choice in two specific cases. If your addresses routinely include a company name as well as a person, two and five-eighths inches is not enough width and the text will shrink to stay on one line. If you are printing for anyone who struggles with small type, three lines in an inch is already near the floor of comfortable reading.
In both cases the answer is a wider or taller sheet rather than a smaller font. The 5161 keeps the same one-inch height at four inches wide; the 5162 adds a third more height on top of that. Both hold considerably more without shrinking anything.
Print Avery 5160 labels
1 Your spreadsheet
.xlsx, .xls or .csv. The file is read inside this tab and never uploaded.
2 What goes on each label
Drawn as a Code 128 symbol in vector, not as an image.
Assign a column to each line. Lines you leave unused are skipped, so the remaining lines close up rather than leaving a gap.
Pick a column holding a count to repeat each row that many times.
3 Label sheet
Skip labels you have already peeled off a part-used sheet.
4 Preview and print
Single label
First page
Print at actual size. Never use “Fit to page” or “Shrink to fit” — either one moves every label out of alignment with the sheet.
Other Avery formats
Sizes, uses and a full comparison are on the Avery template index.