Since 1950 we have led the print industry in notepad and direct mail printing, serving non-profit, hospitality and businesses like yours every day! We Print What People Have Used For Over A 100 Years. Pads, according to legend, were invented by Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts around the year 1888. His idea was to collect paper scraps from various factories, stitch them together and sell them at a fair price as pads. The pad evolved into the modern legal pad when a local judge requested for a margin to be drawn on the left side of the paper. Around the turn of the century NotePads had become a part of everyday business. In the twenties and thirties they developed into a proven marketing tool and a perfect way to get in front of one’s customer. Demand in the non profit and the hospitality sectors has made USA-NotePads one of the largest pad manufacturers in the United States, with the capabilities to produce over 1 million pads per day. Serving all 50 states with a product produced entirely in the United States.