No. Staples 30-up address labels do not share Avery 5160’s exact geometry. The layout drifts by roughly 0.06 inch, which is enough to walk your text off the bottom of every label by the last row. Use a template built for the Staples sheet, not the Avery one.
Here is the trap. A paralegal buys Staples 30-up address labels because they cost less than Avery. The box says "30 labels per sheet, 2-5/8″ × 1″", identical to Avery 5160 on paper. So they open the Avery 5160 template in Word, print, and the first few rows look fine. By row ten the address is creeping toward the edge. By row fifteen it is clipped.
Why it happens
The individual label is the same size. The sheet layout is not. Avery and the store brands set their top margin and vertical pitch (the distance from the top of one label to the top of the next) slightly differently. Each row inherits the error from the row above it, so a 0.06″ difference that is invisible at the top of the page becomes a 0.9″ cumulative shift by the bottom.
In our corpus, the canonical Avery 30-up address geometry and the value-brand 30-up address geometry are two separate Layout Families for exactly this reason. They are close, but not interchangeable at print tolerance (±0.005″).
What to do instead
- Use the template that matches the sheet you actually bought: the Staples or Office Depot 30-up template, not Avery 5160.
- If you only have the Avery template, do a one-sheet test print on plain paper first and hold it against the label sheet at a window.
- Standardize your firm on one brand for a given label so the template never has to change under you.
This is the single most common label-printing failure we found. It is not user error. It is two geometries the manufacturers never reconciled.