Not reliably. Office Depot, Staples, Amazon Basics, and SheetLabels all market their address labels as Avery-compatible, but most sit in their own Layout Family with a margin drift around 0.06″ versus the Avery geometry. Close enough to look right at the top of the page, wrong enough to clip by the bottom.
This is the most actionable finding in the whole project, and the one the Compatibility Matrix exists to show at a glance. The value brands are cheaper for a reason, and compatible in a way that is technically true but practically false.
Why it is a gap, not a defect
None of these labels are defective. They are internally consistent. Each brand’s sheet works perfectly with its own template. The gap is the assumption that "30-up address, 2-5/8″ × 1″" means "Avery 5160 template". It does not, because the sheet-level margins differ even when the label die is identical.
What to do
- See the drift per brand on the Compatibility Matrix. Green prints clean, amber drifts within tolerance, red needs its own template.
- Standardize your firm on one brand and one template.
- When you must switch brands, switch templates in the same move.
Every red or yellow cell on the matrix carries a documented drift figure in inches. That is the number nobody else publishes.