# AWOL Print Studio, Waltham: a print shop in Waltham (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/waltham/awol-print-studio-waltham-ma. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 3 sources. Updated 2026-08-15. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/waltham/awol-print-studio-waltham-ma ## In short AWOL Print Studio is a print shop in Waltham, MA. Its AI Score is 29 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Print shop | | Address | 20 Sun St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sat 11:30 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | Nothing found | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 5.0 across 8 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 9:57 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 20 Sun St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Welcome to AWOL Print Studio to your go-to destination for custom screen printing and embroidery services in Waltham, MA. Since 2014, we’ve been helping individuals, businesses, and organizations bring their creative visions to life through high-quality, custom apparel and accessories. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Name | AWOL Print Studio | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Services | Service | Custom screen printing | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Embroidery services | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Quote | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://awolprintstudio.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 1 service AWOL Print offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Quote | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting AWOL Print Address: 20 Sun St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA. Hours: Mon to Sat 11:30 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by AWOL Print on its Google Business Profile: "Welcome to AWOL Print Studio —your go-to destination for custom screen printing and embroidery services in Waltham, MA. Since 2014, we’ve been helping individuals, businesses, and organizations bring their creative visions to life through high-quality, custom apparel and accessories." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | El Sabor Salvadoreño Restaurant | Restaurant | 3 min walk | | Loida's Square | Restaurant | 3 min walk | | Tuti's Shop | Grocery store | 3 min walk | | 113 Crescent St | Bus stop | 4 min walk | | Crescent St @ Maple St | Bus stop | 4 min walk | | Crescent St @ Walnut St | Bus stop | 5 min walk | ## Reputation 5.0 average across 8 reviews: Google 8. (Confirmed, read August 13, 2026.) (AI guess, from 8 reviews.) ### What people like - High-quality prints and attention to detail - Successful restoration of faulty merchandise ### What people do not like Nothing found ### Press No press story about AWOL Print found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from AWOL Print AWOL Print hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Open Sundays here? No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ### what else is on Sun around AWOL Print? No answer yet ### people keep recommending AWOL Print, what for? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for AWOL Print in Waltham? No answer yet ### genuinely, what is good about this one No answer yet ### cancellation list here, is there one No answer yet ### Delivery here? No answer yet ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a shop in Waltham? No answer yet ### is there parking at AWOL Print or is it street only? No answer yet ### Do they post anywhere? No answer yet ### AWOL Print or iD art Graphics? No answer yet ### budget options in Waltham, what is decent No answer yet ### best print shop in Waltham No answer yet ### walking in for a first visit, what happens No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about AWOL Print We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about AWOL Print. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 14, 2026. Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What the record says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 14, 2026: 0 Brookline Print Center | 20 Sun St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA | ## The AI Score: 29 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Print shops on the registry run 23 to 72. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. AWOL Print scores 29. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | AWOL Print | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 38 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 3 answers that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 71 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 52 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 67 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 61 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 32 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a print shop When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a print shop in Massachusetts, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Massachusetts. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including AWOL Print if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to AWOL Print | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AWOL Print Studio | LocalBusiness | #business | https://awolprintstudio.com/ | Subject of this page | | Waltham, Massachusetts | City | #city | Nothing found | City AWOL Print is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the print shops in Waltham, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best print shops in Waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham/print-shop - Best businesses in Waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham ### Nearby - /boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston - /cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge - /newton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/newton - /somerville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/somerville - /brookline: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/brookline - /wellesley: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/wellesley ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Massachusetts: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own AWOL Print Studio. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJNbQftVOD44kRTtHIAJsgajw (accessed Aug 13, 2026) - [2] awolprintstudio.com, https://awolprintstudio.com/quote (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 14, 2026; Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)