Legal Size Tab Dividers, Printed to Order
Tabzoola manufactures custom legal size tab dividers — an 8.5 by 14 inch body with your section titles printed on the tab, die-cut, Mylar-reinforced, collated in order and punched or left flat for filing. They are made at our own plant in Schaumburg, Illinois, the online tab division of Anselmo Die & Index, Inc., which has die-cut index tabs since 1993.
Legal-size sets are quoted at the plant, usually the same business day.
A non-letter sheet is a different die setup rather than a different setting, so legal does not price in the online designer. Send the section list and the quantity and you get a real number back — no callback, no sales cycle. Letter-size sets price instantly instead.
What a legal-size set is
Legal paper is 8.5 by 14 inches — the same width as letter, three inches longer. A divider has to match the paper it protects, so a legal-size divider is built on that 8.5 by 14 body, with the printed tab standing half an inch past the binding edge.
The extra length is useful rather than incidental. Tabs step down a 14-inch edge instead of an 11-inch one, so at any given cut each tab is longer than its letter equivalent: room for a real section name where a letter set of the same cut would force an abbreviation. The full size comparison is here.
What we make on legal stock
- • Numbered exhibit ranges — 1–25, 1–50, 1–100, or starting at any number your matter requires.
- • Lettered ranges — A–Z, AA–ZZ, or a custom letter sequence.
- • Titled section sets — your own wording on every tab, printed at the plant rather than hand-labeled.
- • Mylar reinforcement in 19 colors, bonded both sides of the tab extension, with a different color per tab at no extra charge.
- • Punched or unpunched — 3-hole for legal ring binders, or left flat and collated one set per filing where a bound submission is not wanted.
- • Paper or poly — 90# or 110# index stock, or .015 wipe-clean poly for sets that get handled daily.
Who orders legal size
Legal size persists where the documents themselves are legal size: real estate closings and title files, deeds and leases, some county court and recorder filings, oil and gas and land records, and older filing systems built around legal cabinets and folders.
It is worth checking the local rule before printing a filing set. Most courts have standardized on letter — federal appellate rules specify 8.5 by 11 inch paper for briefs — but individual county courts, recorders and title companies still specify legal, and theirs is the rule that governs. When the filing is letter, letter-size exhibit tabs price instantly with a free PDF proof.
How ordering works
- Send the section list — or the range — the quantity of sets, and whether the sets should be punched.
- A quote comes back with a real per-set price, usually the same business day.
- Approve the free PDF proof; nothing prints before you have seen it.
- Paper sets produce in about 5 business days from proof approval, poly in about 15, shipped UPS Ground from Schaumburg.
Questions
The body sheet is 8.5 by 14 inches — the same size as the legal documents it separates — and the printed tab stands half an inch past the 8.5-inch binding edge, exactly as it does on a letter-size set. Letter dividers are 8.5 by 11 with the same half-inch extension.
No, and we would rather say so than take the order and sort it out later. The online designer prices letter-size sets instantly because they run on standing dies. A legal-size set is a different die setup, so it is quoted at the plant — send the section list and quantity and the quote usually comes back the same business day.
More than on letter, because the tabs step down a 14-inch binding edge instead of an 11-inch one. At the same cut each tab is longer, so a legal set carries either a longer section name per tab or more positions in a single bank before the sequence steps into a second one.
Yes — numbered ranges, lettered ranges, start-at-any-number sequences and custom wording all print on legal stock the same way they do on letter. Filing sets can be left unpunched and collated one set per filing; office copies can be 3-hole punched for legal-size ring binders.
Match the documents. Both sizes are 8.5 inches wide, so a letter divider will sit on the rings of a legal binder — but every legal page will overhang it by three inches, which defeats the point of the divider. If the filing is legal, the dividers should be legal.
About the same as letter once the quote is approved: roughly 5 business days for paper sets from proof approval, and a free PDF proof comes before anything prints. Poly runs longer, about 15 business days.