Avery 5260 template
Avery 5260 is the same thirty-up address label as the 5160, sold under its own product number and printed with the same template.
- 1" x 2-5/8" labels
- 30 per sheet
- US Letter
Drawn to scale from the measurements below
Print Avery 5260 labels from a spreadsheet
Set to Avery 5260. Add a list, check the preview, and download a PDF laid out to this sheet.
Add your list
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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.
Show the first rows
Swipe the table sideways to see every column.
Arrange the label
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.
More options
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 5260 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 help: "Avery Labels 1" x 2-5/8"" lists 5260; same template as 5160 . Avery 5160, Avery 8160, 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 5260 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 5260 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.
Why does Avery 5260 have the same layout as 5160?
Avery 5260 shares the 5160 layout because Avery gives a distinct product number to each combination of pack size, material, adhesive and printer compatibility, even when the die-cut grid is unchanged. The 5260 sits in the same template family as the 5160 and the 8160: one inch by two and five-eighths, three across and ten down, thirty labels per US Letter sheet.
For anyone laying out a file, that means the number on the box does not matter as much as the family. Choose any of the three in the tool and the labels land in exactly the same places.
What is Avery 5260 used for?
Avery 5260 is used for the same address work as the 5160: mailings, invoices, membership and donor lists, and return addresses. Check the pack for the printer type it is made for, and buy whichever of the family is on the shelf.
It suits recurring jobs where the same spreadsheet gets reprinted with small edits: a subscriber list, a donor list, a route sheet. Keep the source file, change the rows, print again.
How do I print Avery 5260 labels from a spreadsheet?
To print Avery 5260 labels, add the spreadsheet in the tool on this page, check the address layout it sets up, look over the preview, and print. A list longer than thirty rows simply runs onto more sheets, and the first sheet can start at any label, so a part-used sheet is not wasted.
Run one test page on plain paper first and hold it up to a real sheet against a window. It takes a minute and catches a misconfigured printer before it eats a sheet of stock. If the test page is off, the usual causes of labels not lining up are quick to check.
How should I store Avery 5260 sheets?
Keep Avery 5260 sheets flat, wrapped and dry, because label stock is more sensitive to storage than plain paper. The adhesive and the face material expand and contract at different rates, so sheets left somewhere humid can curl at the edges, and a curled sheet feeds crooked or jams.
Keep the pack in its original wrapper, somewhere dry and at room temperature. Take out only what you are about to print. A sheet that has been sitting on a desk for a month next to a radiator is the usual explanation for a job that suddenly prints skewed when the same file worked fine last time.
Fan a stack lightly before loading it so sheets do not stick together, and where your printer offers a straight-through or rear paper path, use it. Fewer bends means less chance of a label lifting on the way through.
Other label sheets
Sizes, uses and a full comparison are in the label template index.