Avery Printable Address Labels Review (2026): The

Why you should trust this review

I cover office supplies, and address labels are a product where the brand premium is easy to dismiss until you have actually fought with a cheap alternative that jams, drifts out of alignment, or peels in a frustrating way. I bought this 1500-count pack at retail with my own money and ran it through real office use over nine months, which is the kind of timeframe that surfaces problems a quick test never would, like sheets curling in storage or adhesive aging.

Avery did not provide this pack, did not see the review beforehand, and had no say in the conclusion. That independence matters here because the central question with a bulk label pack is simply whether the brand is worth paying for over a generic 8160-compatible box, and a sponsored review has every reason to answer yes without examining it. I examined it across nine months of printing.

How we evaluated

I used the pack the way an actual office does, running batches through both inkjet and laser printers across the nine months rather than printing a single demonstration sheet. I tracked print quality for smearing, checked alignment consistency from the first sheet to the last in a run, and paid attention to how the Easy Peel folded corner held up over repeated handling at a desk.

Because this is a bulk pack meant to sit on a shelf between uses, I also watched how the sheets fared in storage over time, which is where I caught the one real durability note worth flagging. The goal throughout was to confirm whether the Avery-specific features, the Easy Peel design, the Design and Print software, the guaranteed 8160 sizing, justify the premium over the generic competition that targets the same template.

Easy Peel and the 8160 standard size

The Easy Peel folded-corner design is the feature you feel every single time you use the pack. Instead of scratching at a flat label with a fingernail to get it started, you bend the sheet at the pre-folded corner and the label pops up ready to lift cleanly off the backing. Over a long mailing session that small bit of friction-removal adds up, and it is the most obvious example of the Avery premium buying you something tangible rather than just a logo on the box.

The 1 by 2 to 5/8 inch 8160 size is the other quiet advantage. It is the de facto address-label standard, which means it is already built into Word, Excel mail merge, and essentially every label tool you might use, so you are never hunting for a custom template or nudging margins to make a generic box line up. A standard U.S. address fits comfortably, and because the sizing is guaranteed, a merge that looks right on screen prints right across all 60 sheets.

Bulk value and the inkjet plus laser compatibility

The 1500-count format, 60 sheets of 25 labels each, is the right pack for someone who actually mails at volume. It covers a year of routine office mailings or a substantial holiday-card list in a single purchase, which lowers your effective per-label cost and means you are not reordering mid-project. The flip side is honest: 1500 labels is genuinely overkill for a casual user, and that many labels can take a year or more to use up if you only print the occasional envelope.

Compatibility is the other reason this pack is easy to recommend broadly. The labels run cleanly through both inkjet and laser printers without smearing in normal use, so you are not locked into one printer type and you do not have to keep separate inkjet-only and laser-only stock. The permanent adhesive sticks reliably to most envelopes and packages, and the backing tears cleanly without ripping the label, which keeps a long mailing run moving.

Storage durability and the Design and Print tool

The one real durability note from nine months of ownership is that the sheets can curl if you store them in a humid spot. It is not a defect so much as a property of paper label stock, and it is easy to avoid by keeping the pack flat and dry, but it is worth knowing because a curled sheet is more likely to feed unevenly. Stored sensibly, the stock stayed flat and fed reliably through the whole period for me.

The Avery Design and Print free online tool is the software half of the value story. It connects to Microsoft Word and Excel mail merge for automatic addressing, so you can pull a contact list straight into a 1500-address run without manual entry, which is exactly the workflow a high-volume mailer needs. Paired with the guaranteed 8160 sizing, it removes most of the fiddliness that makes label printing annoying in the first place.

Who should buy the Avery 8160 1500-count?

Buy this pack if you mail at real volume, an office, a small business, or anyone with a large recurring contact list, and you want the lowest per-label cost in a single purchase. The Easy Peel design, the guaranteed standard sizing, and the mail-merge software together justify the brand premium for someone who prints labels regularly and cannot afford alignment drift or jams in the middle of a run.

Skip the 1500-count if you only print a handful of labels a year, where the pack is more than you will use before it ages and a smaller count or a generic box makes more sense. Skip it too if storage humidity is a concern and you cannot keep the sheets flat and dry, since curling will undercut the feed reliability that is half the reason to buy Avery in the first place.

The verdict

The Avery 8160 White 1500-count is the right bulk address-label pack for anyone who genuinely mails at volume. The Easy Peel folded corner, the guaranteed 8160 sizing, the dual inkjet and laser compatibility, and the free mail-merge software all combine into a pack that simply works, run after run, without the alignment drift and jamming that plague generic alternatives. The honest caveats are that 1500 labels is too many for a casual user and the sheets need dry, flat storage to avoid curling. For a high-volume mailer those are non-issues, and the brand premium is well spent. For occasional home use, a smaller or generic pack is the smarter buy.