I need to make labels on Avery 5160 stock, those are standard address labels, one design repeated 30 times. How can I do this in Inkscape? I have consistently gotten them to print out but they won't line up correctly. I need a 3/16" (.1875") margin on the left side and the columns are printing with no margin. I have tried to see if this is a printer problem and it doesn't look like that is the case. Thank you for any help you can give me.

Have you adjusted the page size to the label sheet size?

You need to move the labels away from the edges if there is a margin, it needs to be lined up on the screen exactly as on the sheet. Use inches as units in your Inkscape document, and set guides to help you.

To create all of the repeated labels use clones so when you change the original all of the others will change as well.

You might also try Open Office, they have some Avery layouts ready to use.

Looks like I got it fixed thanks to your help. First, I made double sure that the new document was in inches and was not the default of A4 size, as I am in the US. I think the key was your telling me to use guides. I was trying to move over the left hand label using the Create Tiled Clones function and that does not seem to like to work so much as a layout aid. I could put whatever number I wanted in and it would still print out with no left margin. Made sure that the label was in inches not PX as well. So, I think it's real important to check all those places for proper units.

I used a blank document with one guide at the top at .5", one guide at the left at .1875", placed the label flush with those two guides and then used the clone and tile with: Simple Translation, 10 rows and 3 columns, per column shift X 5.5%, and "Use saved size and position of tile" checkbox checked. That seemed to work great.

I looked at OpenOffice, and there were templates for that BUT you had to make the label up there and I really wanted to be able to use Inkscape as my drawing instrument and be able to print out from Inkscape, too. Just seems like such a nifty program, it's a shame to waste a function like "Create Tiled Clones", but with the proper handling, it's a great tool.

Finally, I made sure that my printer was set to borderless printing. I have a Canon MP830 and it works very well.

That's it. So I think that your suggestion of using the grid was key, not putting in the image and then try to Create Tiled Clones because that won't move the first one far enough to the right I think. So Thank you.