Avery 5162 template
Avery 5162 is the tall address label: four inches wide and a third taller than a 5161, fourteen to a sheet.
Dimensions
- Label size
- 1-1/3" x 4"
- Labels per sheet
- 14 (2 across × 7 down)
- Sheet size
- US Letter, 8.5in × 11in
- Top margin
- 0.8333in
- Side margin
- 0.1563in
- Horizontal pitch
- 4.1875in
- Vertical pitch
- 1.3333in
Geometry source: LibreOffice label database, Avery Letter Size 5162 (2 x 7, 4.1875in x 1.3333in pitch).
Check the fit before you print on stock. Print the blank template on plain paper, hold it against a sheet of Avery 5162 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. It is worth doing here in particular: these measurements are taken from an open label-template database and checked arithmetically on every build, and that same database’s Avery 5160 entry reproduces our own print-verified geometry exactly — but Avery 5162 has not itself been confirmed against physical stock.
When you need the height
One inch of label height comfortably holds three lines of text. A fourth is possible but cramped, and a fifth is not realistic without dropping to a size nobody wants to read.
At one and a third inches, the 5162 holds four lines easily and five if they are short. That extra room is the whole point of the format — it exists for addresses that genuinely have more parts, and for anyone who needs larger type.
What people use it for
International mail, where a country line sits below the city and postcode. Addresses with a care-of or attention line. Any mailing to an audience that finds small print difficult, since you can set eleven or twelve point type and still fit a full address.
It is also a good general-purpose product label: name, description, date, and a reference number on four separate lines, all legible at arm's length.
Printing 5162 labels from a spreadsheet
Fourteen per sheet is an unusual number, and it comes from the geometry: two columns of seven, with a noticeably deeper top and bottom margin than the other address formats to keep the rows centred on the page.
Set a larger size on line one and a smaller one on the lines below. The tool shrinks text to fit if a row overruns, but it is better to choose sizes that fit than to let everything auto-shrink to the floor.
Type sizes that work at this height
One and a third inches of label height is about ninety-six points, and after the internal padding you have roughly eighty to divide up. That is the number to plan against.
Four lines at fourteen point, with the usual line spacing, comes to about sixty-eight points and sits comfortably. Five lines at eleven point comes to about sixty-seven and also fits. Four lines at eighteen point does not — it needs about eighty-eight — and everything will be scaled down to make room.
For a mailing aimed at older readers, four lines at fourteen or sixteen point is the useful configuration, and it is the main reason to choose this format over a 5161. For a dense product label, five lines at ten or eleven point gives you the most information per label without going below what is comfortable to read at arm's length.
Print Avery 5162 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.