Your Meeting & Convention Planning Print Solutions Provider

As the largest independent printer, with four print facilities throughout Atlantic Canada, Advocate provides stress-free print product support for meeting planners and convention service providers. A pioneer in Atlantic Canada’s flyer and print publications market, for over 125 years Advocate has combined experienced workmanship with modern technology to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. Our digital print division is growing rapidly - with incredible speed and superior quality. We offer an unparalleled customer service experience, consistently producing time sensitive quality printed materials for your next meeting or convention.

Tell your story in a BIG way!

We bring your vision and message to life with our signage and display solutions.

We go the extra mile to deliver the product on time and to the precise specifications needed to hit your goals.

From POS displays and shelf talkers, to danglers and vinyl clings, wide-format printing takes your message to your customers.

If you require:

• Pre-meeting/convention collateral and Direct Mail Products or Services
• On-site support for just-in-time meeting and/or convention print products
• Post-convention/meeting follow-up print materials

Our conference printing services make it easy to:

• Produce conference material for short and long print runs
• Maintain brand consistency among different printed pieces
• Provide final quantities for orders just in time for your event
• Produce orders to your exact specifications
• Ship orders to your conference destination or advance warehouse storage
• Re-order conference books and other materials
• Track orders directly to the conference location
• Help you find the right balance of print, digital media and online content

OThe best products for your event include:

"I am happy to let you know everything was amazing, the signs looked great.

Thank you for helping us out especially with last minute requests."

Michelle Everets, CMP Event and Programs Coordinator Family Enterprise Xchange.com

"I just wanted to send a quick note to say thank you for your impressive design work for our Managers’ Conference last week. Several people commented on the logo and everyone loved the notebooks. I was so relieved to arrive in Montreal and have all of our materials waiting for us (though I wasn’t surprised, cause I know Advocate always delivers).

It was a bit of a leap for the others to move away from some of the other design firms they’re used to, so I wanted to personally thank you for proving me right!"

Susan MacConnell | Manager, Communications Crombie REIT

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Nova Scotia’s largest full service signage and wide format provider

Eastern Sign-Print (ESP) is a name many Nova Scotian businesses are familiar with. Through the vast amount of products and services produced for Sobeys and its retail signage needs over the last 40 years, to its established name supporting other businesses print needs throughout Atlantic Canada.

In 2018, Advocate Printing acquired the operations of Eastern Sign to not only continue the wonderful history of the company, but to enhance both signage and wide format offerings into one - creating a larger, dynamic presence in Atlantic Canada.

Products

Signage and wide format printing are the main products of ESP. With that, the options are limitless.

Project Solutions /Team Collaboration

ESP’s team shines when working with designers, project managers, and marketing teams, when collaborating to find solutions to make an initiative more visible. The options breaking out of the norm give their clients more options to think outside the box and bring ideas to life.

Scale beyond the walls

Eastern Sign has the advantage to go beyond its team for further support. With the main Advocate Printing production facility 15 minutes away, additional teams and services can be brought to a project that may require more - whether it is other printing support or additional distribution needs. Scale is never a problem when you are owned by Atlantic Canada’s largest commercial printer.

Learn more about our Eastern Sign Print's services

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Advocate’s Digital Asset Management tools allow you to capture your content, catalogue it, repurpose it and approve it through the Internet, saving you significant time and money.

Advocate Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a hosted solution that enables users to efficiently access, upload, share and organize their digital assets such as, photos, videos, graphics and multiple versions of marketing materials online. Advocate DAM helps minimize time spent searching for files, identifying the master copy, re-purposing for different uses and distributing. There’s no additional hardware or software to install on your local network. Implementation of DAM saves users the resources and expenses associated with the server hardware, IT infrastructure and maintenance personnel required to host one’s own enterprise solution.

This solution provides more than just digital archiving or storage capabilities; it is also capable of project creation and custom workflows. Utilizing Adobe flex technology, our DAM infrastructure allows for efficient integration and uploading of assets by way of the Adobe Air Importer. Assets are imported seamlessly into the system, enabling the user to be up and running much faster than traditional archiving systems.

Centralizing content in a DAM repository is the first major step in streamlining business processes that support the operational efforts of an organization’s brand, content and distribution assets.

ADVANTAGES:

• Production/Project Asset Management - Storage, organization and revision control of frequently changing assets (WIP DAM).
• Save time - Having things organized and easy to access reduces the amount of time it takes to produce, approve, and share campaign collateral — whether the destination is online or inhand.
• Flexibility – access to your content is never more than an Internet connection away-every hour of the day.
• Library Asset Management - Storage and retrieval of large amounts of media assets. This is also ideal for long-term backup and Disaster Recovery Programs (DRP).
• Brand Control – Historical data can be designated as view only while only the most up-to-date versions are fully accessible for re-use.
• Fewer Errors - The latest file of your products and specifications are maintained and identified on the system so you can be sure you’re accessing the most up-to-date, approved version.
• Security – Documents and files are accessed via a secure, password-protected site. Each user has a personal ID, allowing different levels of access and the system can give you a handy report of who has made changes, when.
• Cost Savings – With this well organized system you can capture your content, repurpose it, identify current versions of files and approve it – through any standard web browser-saving you significant time and money while reducing human error.
• Digital Supply Chain – You can push digital content out to external systems. This is excellent for Photo/Image studio or even companies involved in web-based applications or CMS.