How many labels fit on an A4 sheet?
An A4 sheet is 210 × 297 mm. Take off a 10 mm margin on each edge — the area most home printers cannot reach — and roughly 190 × 277 mm remain usable.
With 2 mm between labels, that works out in practice to:
- Large (96 × 50 mm): 2 columns × 5 rows, so 10 labels.
- Medium (63 × 33 mm): 2 columns × 8 rows, so 16 labels.
- Small (47 × 25 mm): 3 columns × 10 rows, so 30 labels.
Always print at 100%
This is the most common mistake, and the least visible. By default, many printer drivers and PDF viewers apply a "fit to page" that shrinks the document by 3 to 5%. A label designed for 96 mm then comes out at 92, and no longer fits the jar it was made for.
In the print dialog, find the scale setting and force it to 100% or "Actual size". If you print from an iPhone, also check that the selected paper size really is A4 and not Letter: the two look alike enough to slip through, and differ by 18 mm in height.
Portrait or landscape?
The rule is simple: orient the sheet whichever way leaves the least empty space. Wide, short labels — a typical jar label — pack better in portrait, where you stack rows. Tall labels, like those for a slim bottle, often gain from landscape.
Stick-it packs labels automatically, row by row, keeping 2 mm apart. Flip the orientation and watch the number of placed labels: it is the fastest way to decide.
Cut marks
Cutting straight freehand on a sheet with no marks is a thankless exercise. Stick-it draws fine cut marks at the corners of every label: line the ruler up on two opposite marks and cut in one pass.
A craft knife and a metal ruler give a far cleaner result than scissors, especially on sticker paper, which tends to curl.
Which paper to choose
Plain 80 gsm paper is fine for a test, and for any label glued onto a glass jar with white glue — a method that has the advantage of coming off in hot water.
For something longer-lasting, full-page A4 sticker sheets cut exactly like ordinary paper, since you decide where the cuts go. Adhesive kraft paper gives the artisan look you see on market jams; it darkens colours, so plan for high-contrast text.
Test on plain paper first
Before starting a sticker sheet, print the same page on plain paper and hold a cut label against the container you have in mind. Thirty seconds that save a whole sheet — and that immediately expose a wrong scale setting.
Updated 2026-08-21
