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.
- 1" x 2-5/8" labels
- 30 per sheet
- US Letter
Drawn to scale from the measurements below
Print Avery 5160 labels from a spreadsheet
Set to Avery 5160. Add a list, check the preview, and download a PDF laid out to this sheet.
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The labels update as soon as you paste. Tip: Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac) anywhere on this page works too.
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Each line here is a line on the label. Click a column name to insert it, or type any text you want printed. A line whose columns are all empty for a row is left out, so the rest close up.
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Drawn as vector shapes, never as an image, so edges stay sharp at any print size.
Pick a column that holds a number to print each row that many times.
Size and alignment per line
Choose the label sheet or roll
Printing on a partly used sheet?
Or pick the first unused label on the sheet below. Earlier positions are left blank.
Labels printing a little off?
First print the blank template on plain paper at actual size and check the usual causes. If every label is off by the same amount, move them back here. A minus sign moves left or up. Saved in this browser for this sheet.
Preview
Sample list
Sheet 1 of 1
First label, enlarged
Download and print
The layout has no columns in it, so every label is the same. The starting number fills the rest of one sheet.
In the print dialog choose Actual size (100%). “Fit to page” shrinks the sheet and pushes every label off its cut. The PDF asks your viewer for actual size, but check before you print a full run.
Avery 5160 dimensions
Every measurement of the 30-label sheet, computed from the same data the PDF is drawn from.
- Label size
- 2-5/8" wide × 1" tall (66.67 mm × 25.4 mm)
- Labels per sheet
- 30: 3 across, 10 down
- Sheet
- US Letter, 8-1/2" × 11"
- Top and bottom margin
- 1/2" and 1/2" (12.7 mm)
- Left and right margin
- 3/16" and 3/16" (4.76 mm)
- Gap between columns
- 1/8" (3.17 mm)
- Gap between rows
- none (rows touch)
- Horizontal and vertical pitch
- 2-3/4" and 1"
Geometry source: Avery template 5160 / LibreOffice label database (Avery Letter Size) (labels.xml). Avery 8160, Avery 5260, Avery 5960, Avery 8460 have identical measurements, so a PDF made for one prints on the others.
Check the fit before you print on labels. 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 cuts. Worth doing with any template on any printer: paper size, driver margins and scaling all shift a sheet.
Values for Word’s Label Options
Mailings › Labels › Options › New Label, if Avery 5160 is not in Word’s list.
| Top margin | 0.50" |
|---|---|
| Side margin | 0.19" |
| Vertical pitch | 1.00" |
| Horizontal pitch | 2.75" |
| Label height | 1.00" |
| Label width | 2.63" |
| Number across | 3 |
| Number down | 10 |
| Page size | Letter (8.5" × 11") |
Word works in hundredths of an inch, so these are rounded; the PDF from this page uses the exact values above.
What is Avery 5160?
Avery 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 and ZIP code 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 is Avery 5160 used for?
Avery 5160 is used mostly for bulk postal mail: holiday card runs, invoices, membership mailings, class lists, and return addresses. Thirty to a sheet is the sweet spot, small enough to carry a full address and dense enough that a list of 300 addresses fits on ten sheets.
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.
How do I print Avery 5160 labels from a spreadsheet?
To print Avery 5160 labels, add your spreadsheet in the tool on this page and a US address list is laid out for you: name, street, then city, state and ZIP code, with the preview updating as you go. At this height three lines fit at 14 point; a fourth brings every line down to about 12 point, and the tool does that shrinking for you.
ZIP codes that Excel trimmed to four digits are padded back to five, and the summary says how many were fixed. If you have already peeled labels off a sheet, pick the first unused label on the drawing of the sheet so printing starts there instead of wasting the remainder.
When should I use something other than Avery 5160?
Avery 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. Going the other way, a return address needs less room than a full mailing address, and the 5167 fits eighty of them on a sheet.
Other label sheets
Sizes, uses and a full comparison are in the label template index.