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  • Follow Us On Social Media
    Keep up with the latest around the amp shop by following our social media feeds! AMP ON INSTAGRAM [instagram-feed] AMP ON FACEBOOK [custom-facebook-feed] AMP ON...
  • Customer Resources
    Below are a gathering of useful resources customers often need when submitting artwork, preparing to place an order and more! MAX PRINT...
  • Tips for Designing in Canva Canva
    While the Adobe suite of production like InDesign and Illustrator have been a staple in the design and print world for...
  • Tips For Success with QR Codes
    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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  • Supporting #Essential Businesses
    With the Safer At Home order in place and most of the nation doing their part to keep businesses runnng, the...
  • Direct Mail Still Matters In A Digital World
    For many marketers, a reliance on digital marketing efforts makes sense in so many ways. Digital tools allow for easy targeting,...
  • Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Business Cards business card on a desk
    Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Business Cards First impressions are critical in today’s business world. We all know the...
  • 5 Design Tips for Your Wide Print Format Sign 5 Design Tips for Your Wide Print Format Sign
    Are you in the market for a wide print format sign? If so, are you planning on designing it or are...
  • 5 Services We Provide That You Probably Didn’t Know About 5 Services We Provide That You Probably Didn’t Know About
    You probably know us as AMP, a printing company. Now we need to expand your idea of what a printing company...
  • Nashville Start Ups: How to Succeed in the 7th Fastest Growing City in the US New business come in we're open sign
    According to money.cnn.com, Nashville is receiving 31,153 people every year and growing. With this growth, consumers simply are inundated with choices....
  • How AMP Can Partner With You for Your Holiday Parties How AMP Can Partner With You for Your Holiday Parties
    Everyone loves the holidays. From watching festive movies, attending countless parties, spending quality time with family and friends, to eating all...
  • 10 Holiday Card Ideas Our Ten Holiday Card Ideas
    You’ve got to admit, everyone enjoys opening fun mail addressed to yours truly. It’s the feeling of surprise, curiosity, and thoughtfulness...
  • 3 Ways You Can Use Letter Banners 3 Ways You Can Use Letter Banners
    AMP is your destination for any and all of your design and printing needs. Printing needs vary from business, to celebrations,...
  • Everything You Need to Know About Wall Murals Everything You Need To Know About Wall Murals
    The purpose of promotional materials, signs, posters, advertisements, stickers, frosted glass, etc., is to draw in customers. The goal of the...
  • 5 Reasons Why You Should Print Your Convention Materials Locally 5 Reasons Why You Should Print Your Convention Materials Locally
    We highly recommend printing your convention material locally. Having high quality convention material is important. This is the material that will...
  • Why AMP is a Great Partner for Your Nashville Events Why AMP is a Great Partner for Your Nashville Events
    Here at AMP, we partner with a lot of great local and non-local businesses. We help businesses promote their brand in...
  • Why You Need a Large Format Banner for Your New Construction Build Why You Need a Large Format Banner for Your New Construction Build
    A large format banner serves the purpose of branding your new construction build. It increases your network of both potential and...
  • Why Wide Print Format Signs are Great for Your Brand Why Wide Print Format Signs are Great for Your Brand
    Marketing messages saturate our world. Think about it; from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, you...
  • 3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Large Format Banner 3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Large Format Banner
    A large format banner is an important marketing piece for many businesses. The AMP design team has come up with a...
  • How to Format the Best Brochure for Your Business Redd Angelo
    How to Format the Best Brochure for Your Business Brochures may seem like an outdated way to convey and share information, but...
  • TEDxNashville Signage TEDxNashville Chalkboard panel
    Introducing TEDxNashvillexAMP: signage ideas worth spreading. (Also known as TEDxNashville signage provided by AMP). We had the honor of providing some really...
  • Stewart Parking Meter Signage Parking Meter Signage
    This past Friday, we installed (maybe) our grandest large-format project yet at Stewart Parking. The parking meter signage consists of eight parts: a...
  • 5 Reasons You Need Stationery Personalized stationery
    Stationery is a classic paper need for business professionals. A thoughtful note can be the difference between two qualified candidates for a job...
  • Frosted Glass Etched glass window
    Frosted glass, or "etched glass" is a really popular graphic for businesses. Law firms, real estate companies, architecture firms, advertising agencies...
  • Coasters bucket truck birthday Coaster
    Personalized coasters are a big seller for amp right now. It's a great branding technique and the perfect gift for birthdays,...
  • Window Decals with Frothy Monkey Frothy Monkey Downtown Window Decal
    Window decals are a great way to advertise your business, provide information to your customers and enhance the overall appearance of...
  • Awesome business cards awesome business cards
    Everyone's always looking for awesome business cards to make their company stand out and their brand memorable. As we've stated in...
  • Car decals
    Car decals are a great form of advertisement. According to the American Trucking Associations, vehicle ads generate more than 600 visual...
  • Lexan Business Cards acrylic business card
    It's about time we wrote about our popular, new lexan business cards. We receive more compliments on these business cards than most...
  • Sticker Stencils with Reed PR Sticker stencils
    We've mentioned that we can put stickers on just about anything.. but I bet you didn't think about sticker stencils on...
  • Wall decals Moskos wall decal
    Little Mosko's has combined two of our favorite things: awesome food and cool wall decals.  The "muncheonette" and bake shop, located in...
  • Hop-Up Banner Hop-up Banner
    This past weekend we created our first hop-up banner for Dear Addie Fine Stationery. A hop-up banner is used instead of a...
  • Storefront Signs Max metal sign mounted with tapcons
    A popular request lately has been storefront signs — specifically, acrylic and max metal storefront signs. It's a really pretty, noticeable...
  • Tabletop Prints with GS&F Table tops before installation
    We love printing where no printer has printed before. GS&F helped us expand our resume by asking us to brand some tables...
  • Realtor’s Print Check List Mix metal print
    We have a lot of real estate firms as clients and we receive a lot of questions regarding the printing associated...
  • Chalkboard Printing Dear Addie event sign
    Chalkboard printing is one of our new favorite services. People rarely think to print on the substrate, so you rarely see...
  • Bunting Banners with Edley’s bunting banner
    On Tuesday, we discussed the difference between bunting banners (a.k.a. letter banners) and traditional banners. To recap, a bunting is a...
  • Acrylic Easels Acrylic easel - front
    Recently, we created our first acrylic easel for Village Real Estate. It's not our first easel — we've created adhesive, self-stick easels...
  • 8 Holiday Card Recycling Tips Deck the halls with recycled cards ad
    We love Christmas cards -- the thoughtfulness, the design, the meaning behind it. However, we don't love the waste it produces,...
  • Wide-format capabilities Acrylic storefront sign
    "What are your wide-format capabilities?" We get this question a lot. It's difficult to answer because there are so many. Essentially, if...
  • 15 (Print) Things to be Thankful for 15 things to be thankful for image
    With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of printing capabilities,...
  • 6 Holiday Photo Card Tips Merriest Christmas holiday card (Flat)
    Ahh, the dreaded family holiday photo! No, taking photos for holiday cards is not everyone's favorite thing to do. However, with these...
  • Business Holiday Cards Holiday Cards colorful trees
    This year we are offering something special: a set of ready-made business holiday cards that you can customize and order today....
  • Holiday Thank You Cards Hand-Scripted Holiday Holiday Card Set (Folded)
    This year we are offering something special: a set of ready-made holiday thank you cards that you can customize and order...
  • Non-Photo Holiday Cards Stained Glass Noel Set (Flat)
    For the first time, we are offering ready-made, non-photo holiday cards that can be customized and ordered today. Click on each...
  • Holiday Photo Cards Christmas card, couple.
    For the first time, we are offering ready-made holiday photo cards that can be customized and ordered today. Click on each...
  • Holiday Hangtags Other available colors
    For the first time, we are offering ready-made holiday hangtags that can be customized and ordered today. Click on each hangtag...
  • Ready-Made Holiday Cards Gold Joy card
    This year we are offering something special: a set of ready-made holiday cards and hangtags that you can order today. As...
  • 3D signs with Lendlease 3D signs
    A couple weeks ago, we created our first — drum roll please — 3D sign. Well, technically, two 3D signs. One was a smaller version...
  • 9 tips to save on Christmas cards Christmas Card
    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...
  • 8 frightening printing mistakes printing mistakes
    In honor of Halloween this weekend, we have gathered some scary printing mistakes that will haunt your dreams (and your bank...
  • Edge-painted business cards with GS&F edge-painted business cards
    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...
  • Innovative Printing in Nashville Nashviller Airport Authority
    Granted, we're sort of print nerds, so we think all things printed are cool. But these three companies really blew our...
  • Your Guide to Amazing Letterhead Paige screenshot
    An eye-catching letterhead, like a good business card, is a crucial marketing opportunity. Sometimes it will be the first correspondence a customer...
  • Foil Stamping with Harbor Entertainment shelf signage
    We love to show off our foil stamped products. For one, it is so elegant and beautiful (and looks great in photos). But...
  • 5 money-saving print tips Invitation with silver, metallic paper
    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...
  • Signs with Fifth Third Bank Fans holding signs
    - photo by Stephanie M. Maiocco Signs. We know — they aren't the sexiest. But sometimes the simplest things can be the most powerful....
  • Art Installation with Third Man Records Angelina Costillo (right) with her artwork.
    "There’s a romantic feeling of pulling a photograph out of a polaroid camera, holding it in your hands and showing it...
  • Direct Mail Tips with Land Trust awesome direct mail piece
    The Land Trust for Tennessee has several fundraising events throughout the year, including Once in a Blue Moon, a party at...
  • 5 Cool Wide-Format Printing Ideas white ink wide-format printing ability
    With so much media and signage today, it's hard to break through the clutter. As most of you know, we got...
  • Letterpress with Judith Bright debossed and foil stamped judith bright
    As every bride in America knows, letterpress is an elegant print method that makes a soft indentation (embossing) on card stock. We...
  • Brochure Printing Tips Die cut iphone brochure
    Brochure printing isn't the sexiest, but it's necessary for relaying information about your company, products or services. These advertising staples can...
  • Wedding Invitations: 10 Ways to Save Money wedding invitations
    Wedding invitations can be beautiful without spending a fortune. Here are ten tips to ensure your stationery cost stays within your budget. 1....
  • Sticker Printing: American Born Moonshine printing stickers
    Sticker printing sounds a tad juvenile. But don't be fooled -- our adhesives make great architectural graphics, furniture graphics and printed household...
  • Building Graphics: Village Real Estate Etched glass vinyl
    Building graphics (or architectural graphics) are a hot marketing technique right now. Like outside graphics, they are a cost-effective method of advertising...
  • Outdoor Graphics Trends outdoor graphics
    Outdoor graphics is one of the fastest growing segments of the printing and marketing industry, due mostly to the expanded capabilities...
  • Create your own custom-printed tabs Dog and Cat printed on folder
    Custom-printed tabs scream organization. With school and a new work year just around the corner, custom-printed tabs will make you (and...
  • Cutouts: Colex or Letterpress? life-size cutout of dog
    Cutouts are fun. A circular business card, star-shaped sticker or a life-size cutout of your dog are going to be much...
  • Die Cuts: amp’s Die Inventory BKON Logo on mousepad
    As most of you know, die cuts are just a fancy print term for "cut outs" or shapes. An encyclopedic definition of...
  • Business Card How-To Edge-painted business cards
    Have you ever read a blog post about business cards that stated the obvious? Such as "put all your information on...
  • Small Business: 15 Interesting Facts amp's Current Location building
    We love small businesses. We are a small business. As most of you know, fifteen years ago, amp consisted of Matt...
  • Featured Project:
    Highlights from our Kick @$$ Summer Block Party
    People standing in front sign
    June marked the one-year anniversary at our new location. At the same time, our new roommate, Green Apple Strategy, celebrated their...
  • amp’s Virtual Tour AMP: Advocate Marketing & Print
    Because we’re so hip, we got a cool new virtual tour for those of you who can’t physically come to the shop...
  • Introduction to amp Putting the amp sign on building
    As you probably know, print production can be confusing. There are so many pieces of the puzzle that have to fit...