How do I feed an AVERY label 5453 into the printer?

Use Avery Label sheet.
Set correct paper size on Word and the Operating system.
Use label from Sheet feed tray only.

According to the printer specifications for the Officejet 8600 Pro Plus, the following label sheet sizes are supported;

HP Officejet Pro 8600 All in One Printer series N911 Manuals

You will need to feed these through the manual tray and you should set the paper size and type to match this label. The avery site shows this as an A4 label sheet. If you are in North America the default on this printer is letter size not A4.You should also ensure that you have configured the print driver correctly when you go to print.

While that printer's specifications (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00718670&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=1153754#N415) allow up to 30 labels in its paper tray & up to 25 in its output tray, Avery® often recommends (if not instructs) only feeding one sheet in at a time.

The printer is expecting the label stock to be loaded into the manual feed tray, not the regular paper tray. If it does not sense anything in the manual feed tray it will not continue. If you are loading the stock in the tray, it may need to be pushed further into the try to trigger the sensor.

Open the rear door and clean all rubber rollers with alcohol

I have the same printer and usually when this happens I am able to flip the lever on the side to put it into auto peel mode and push the feed button on the front and that usually works and makes the light go green. It was explained to me that if the label stock is old it will have a hard time recognizing it. Sometimes I have to pull out the labels and re-insert the labels to get them to work properly. I hope this helps.

Hi nwillett,
Yes and no, sorry if that doesn't make much sense.
For years Minolta recommended Avery labels, but these days they recomment labels manufactured by Howard Smith Papers, their website is http://www.hspg.com/
The thing with labels is always to use the one your copier service company suggests. Otherwise they'll invalidate you contract and you'll be liable for callouts and repairs caused by using Avery labels.
However, Avery labels are good and I have experienced very few problems with them I pressume you using the lables in the correct orientation and also using the manual bypass to feed them.
Regards
Taminol

When you say TOP TRAY, do you mean a paper drawer, or the BYPASS TRAY? If the labels won't feed into the bypass but bond paper does, check to see if your labels are made for inkjet printers. Go to www.avery.com and contact Avery customer support to see what product they recommend for your MFC. Labels made for plain paper printers sometimes do not work for inkjets, and vice-a-versa.

You have to feed the labels through the manual feeder.

It worked fine for us on an Epson. We printed about 40 sheets fed one at a time. Do not stack the sheets in the feed hopper, they stick together because of the magnetism.

There is no template because the material is not die cut. It is just full 8.5x11" sheet size.