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Below are a gathering of useful resources customers often need when submitting artwork, preparing to place an order and more! MAX PRINT...
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While the Adobe suite of production like InDesign and Illustrator have been a staple in the design and print world for...
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QR Codes have become commonplace as mobile device manufacturers have integrated the ability to scan them into basic camera functionality vs....
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With the Safer At Home order in place and most of the nation doing their part to keep businesses runnng, the...
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For many marketers, a reliance on digital marketing efforts makes sense in so many ways. Digital tools allow for easy targeting,...
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Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Business Cards First impressions are critical in today’s business world. We all know the...
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Are you in the market for a wide print format sign? If so, are you planning on designing it or are...
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You probably know us as AMP, a printing company. Now we need to expand your idea of what a printing company...
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According to money.cnn.com, Nashville is receiving 31,153 people every year and growing. With this growth, consumers simply are inundated with choices....
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Everyone loves the holidays. From watching festive movies, attending countless parties, spending quality time with family and friends, to eating all...
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You’ve got to admit, everyone enjoys opening fun mail addressed to yours truly. It’s the feeling of surprise, curiosity, and thoughtfulness...
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AMP is your destination for any and all of your design and printing needs. Printing needs vary from business, to celebrations,...
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The purpose of promotional materials, signs, posters, advertisements, stickers, frosted glass, etc., is to draw in customers. The goal of the...
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We highly recommend printing your convention material locally. Having high quality convention material is important. This is the material that will...
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Here at AMP, we partner with a lot of great local and non-local businesses. We help businesses promote their brand in...
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A large format banner serves the purpose of branding your new construction build. It increases your network of both potential and...
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Marketing messages saturate our world. Think about it; from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, you...
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A large format banner is an important marketing piece for many businesses. The AMP design team has come up with a...
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How to Format the Best Brochure for Your Business Brochures may seem like an outdated way to convey and share information, but...
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Introducing TEDxNashvillexAMP: signage ideas worth spreading. (Also known as TEDxNashville signage provided by AMP). We had the honor of providing some really...
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This past Friday, we installed (maybe) our grandest large-format project yet at Stewart Parking. The parking meter signage consists of eight parts: a...
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Stationery is a classic paper need for business professionals. A thoughtful note can be the difference between two qualified candidates for a job...
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Frosted glass, or "etched glass" is a really popular graphic for businesses. Law firms, real estate companies, architecture firms, advertising agencies...
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Personalized coasters are a big seller for amp right now. It's a great branding technique and the perfect gift for birthdays,...
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Window decals are a great way to advertise your business, provide information to your customers and enhance the overall appearance of...
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Everyone's always looking for awesome business cards to make their company stand out and their brand memorable. As we've stated in...
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Car decals are a great form of advertisement. According to the American Trucking Associations, vehicle ads generate more than 600 visual...
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It's about time we wrote about our popular, new lexan business cards. We receive more compliments on these business cards than most...
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We've mentioned that we can put stickers on just about anything.. but I bet you didn't think about sticker stencils on...
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Little Mosko's has combined two of our favorite things: awesome food and cool wall decals. The "muncheonette" and bake shop, located in...
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This past weekend we created our first hop-up banner for Dear Addie Fine Stationery. A hop-up banner is used instead of a...
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A popular request lately has been storefront signs — specifically, acrylic and max metal storefront signs. It's a really pretty, noticeable...
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We love printing where no printer has printed before. GS&F helped us expand our resume by asking us to brand some tables...
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We have a lot of real estate firms as clients and we receive a lot of questions regarding the printing associated...
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Chalkboard printing is one of our new favorite services. People rarely think to print on the substrate, so you rarely see...
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On Tuesday, we discussed the difference between bunting banners (a.k.a. letter banners) and traditional banners. To recap, a bunting is a...
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We obviously do a lot of banners.. vinyl, matte, mesh, stand-up. If you receive our emails or follow us on social...
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Recently, we created our first acrylic easel for Village Real Estate. It's not our first easel — we've created adhesive, self-stick easels...
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We love Christmas cards -- the thoughtfulness, the design, the meaning behind it. However, we don't love the waste it produces,...
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"What are your wide-format capabilities?" We get this question a lot. It's difficult to answer because there are so many. Essentially, if...
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With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of printing capabilities,...
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Ahh, the dreaded family holiday photo! No, taking photos for holiday cards is not everyone's favorite thing to do. However, with these...
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This year we are offering something special: a set of ready-made business holiday cards that you can customize and order today....
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This year we are offering something special: a set of ready-made holiday thank you cards that you can customize and order...
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For the first time, we are offering ready-made, non-photo holiday cards that can be customized and ordered today. Click on each...
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For the first time, we are offering ready-made holiday photo cards that can be customized and ordered today. Click on each...
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For the first time, we are offering ready-made holiday hangtags that can be customized and ordered today. Click on each hangtag...
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This year we are offering something special: a set of ready-made holiday cards and hangtags that you can order today. As...
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A couple weeks ago, we created our first — drum roll please — 3D sign. Well, technically, two 3D signs. One was a smaller version...
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Christmas cards can be beautiful without spending a fortune. Here are nine tips to ensure your stationery cost stays within your budget. 1. Come directly...
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In honor of Halloween this weekend, we have gathered some scary printing mistakes that will haunt your dreams (and your bank...
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Edge-painted business cards aren't new, but we've started seeing a lot more requests. It's a nice touch that's more affordable than...
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Granted, we're sort of print nerds, so we think all things printed are cool. But these three companies really blew our...
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An eye-catching letterhead, like a good business card, is a crucial marketing opportunity. Sometimes it will be the first correspondence a customer...
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We love to show off our foil stamped products. For one, it is so elegant and beautiful (and looks great in photos). But...
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Money-saving print tip 1: Ask about the copier Some print shops have a regular copier that can print your black-and-white documents at...
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- photo by Stephanie M. Maiocco Signs. We know — they aren't the sexiest. But sometimes the simplest things can be the most powerful....
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Ahh, the holidays. It's the most wonderful time of the year, and one of the most profitable. According to Yahoo, 40...
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This week, over 750 entrepreneurs of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) from the eastern United States headed to Nashville for a three-day EO NERVE...
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With the holidays approaching and a new school year in full swing, it's a good time to purchase new, customized drink coasters....
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Last week, we printed some wall art for Third Man Records. They had an art exhibit (which is open until the 16th!), and...
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"There’s a romantic feeling of pulling a photograph out of a polaroid camera, holding it in your hands and showing it...
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The Land Trust for Tennessee has several fundraising events throughout the year, including Once in a Blue Moon, a party at...
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With so much media and signage today, it's hard to break through the clutter. As most of you know, we got...
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As every bride in America knows, letterpress is an elegant print method that makes a soft indentation (embossing) on card stock. We...
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Brochure printing isn't the sexiest, but it's necessary for relaying information about your company, products or services. These advertising staples can...
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Wedding invitations can be beautiful without spending a fortune. Here are ten tips to ensure your stationery cost stays within your budget. 1....
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Sticker printing sounds a tad juvenile. But don't be fooled -- our adhesives make great architectural graphics, furniture graphics and printed household...
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Building graphics (or architectural graphics) are a hot marketing technique right now. Like outside graphics, they are a cost-effective method of advertising...
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Outdoor graphics is one of the fastest growing segments of the printing and marketing industry, due mostly to the expanded capabilities...
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Custom-printed tabs scream organization. With school and a new work year just around the corner, custom-printed tabs will make you (and...
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Cutouts are fun. A circular business card, star-shaped sticker or a life-size cutout of your dog are going to be much...
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As most of you know, die cuts are just a fancy print term for "cut outs" or shapes. An encyclopedic definition of...
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Have you ever read a blog post about business cards that stated the obvious? Such as "put all your information on...
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Which type of booklet binding is the most affordable? The quickest? The most durable? Here's everything you need to know about...
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Meat Ya Banner designed by Amanda Mazzo at Mazzo Media. amp seems to be doing everything big this year, which includes expanding...
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A Mother's Day Postcard doesn't have to be dull. Or expensive. Forget Hallmarks and come to amp to pick up a...
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We love small businesses. We are a small business. As most of you know, fifteen years ago, amp consisted of Matt...
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We love printing promotional postcards and stickers. There's so much you can do with them, and they allow a lot of room...
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Architectural Graphics are crucial to businesses today. Marketing tactics are constantly changing, and this is one that has recently come in...
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“Spring awakens what autumn puts to sleep.” My parents have this saying as a crochet on their wall – blue thread,...
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June marked the one-year anniversary at our new location. At the same time, our new roommate, Green Apple Strategy, celebrated their...
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This week we’re working on an internal project for Breathe America. Rather than create a dull processes book, they decided to...
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This week’s featured project is a menu book for Corsair Artisan. The covers are printed on a cream Cordtone cover, and...
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This brochure was designed by Solve, and the rest is history!...
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A project nearly six months in the making we’re so excited to complete. This book has a custom-stamped metal binder, custom...
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Check out these banners we did for Red Rover Pet Services on display at Tomato Fest last weekend!...
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Last week we rocked out some foam core boards for a client of our pals at Noble Sidekick. The boards were...
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This week’s project is a tri-fold and die cut brochure for ApexWorks. Our very own in-house designer, Mykie, designed this piece,...
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We wrapped up this project last week for the launch of Therapy Systems’ new line, “Beauty Can Be a Dirty Business.”...
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One of our local faves, The Horton Group, designed this beautiful piece, and we made it come to life. We printed...
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For some of you, this blog post is common knowledge. For our clients who are not as familiar with graphic design,...
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It's a common misconception that print and digital media are competing methods of communication. It's time to change your way of...
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The Southeastern Young Alumni Charitable Foundation will host its 2013 The Affair to Care presented by First Tennessee Bank on Saturday,...
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How many business cards come in a box? Small box: 250 Large box: 500 What type of paper do I need? First, we need to...
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We all know that sinking feeling when you realize you forgot a deadline. Your entire stomach feels like it’s in your...
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Sometimes everything just can’t fit on that 12″x18″ sheet for our HP Indigo 5500, and for those posters/banners we turn to...
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Because we’re so hip, we got a cool new virtual tour for those of you who can’t physically come to the shop...
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A few weeks ago, we had the chance to work with one of our partner creative agencies to pull together a...
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Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again. We can print your press-ready holiday cards, or we can personalize...
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As you probably know, print production can be confusing. There are so many pieces of the puzzle that have to fit...