'a distinctive imprint' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe a specific set of features or characteristics unique to someone or something. For example, "The painting was strikingly beautiful, leaving a distinctive imprint on the minds of viewers."
Eager to give each unit a distinctive imprint, the development team is offering 130 floor plans.
But for much of the show he seems hesitant to put a distinctive imprint on the part.
There have certainly been previous periods of geologic time in which glaciers were extensive (during the late Precambrian and the Permian Period, for example), but the Quaternary has left a distinctive imprint on modern landscapes and surface environments.
Tim Ryan, who was one of Mr. DiSpirito's instructors at the Culinary Institute of America, and is now the president of the school, said that his star student could leave a distinctive imprint even on raw onions.
Supraglacial and ice-marginal landforms leave a distinctive imprint on the landscape and record the nature of glacial retreat by marginal backwasting, widespread downwasting, or by a history of ice-marginal fluctuations.
And even as the musical gradually reconfirms that the goal of a great chorus line is unanimity, there's the fascinating reminder that behind each identically bright smile and in-sync step is an individual capable of leaving a distinctive imprint.
A distinctive personal imprint.
Far from stamping a distinctive Gore imprint on the Democratic Party, the document warmly embraces the centrist policies of the Clinton administration and lavishly credits them for the prosperity of the last seven years.
Whether he is working in film, theatre or opera, Altman is an artist whose work bears its own distinctive imprint: as Pauline Kael wrote in her lyrical encomium to Nashville, "the picture is unmistakably Altman - as identifiable as a paragraph by Mailer when he's really racing".
The recognition of — sorry — the mark of "Kane," the distinctive imprint of the Hollywood filmmaker on a studio production, made the French New Wave possible and determined the self-conscious course of the modern cinema, Hollywood and elsewhere.
This is a swath of downtown where that actress has left her distinctive imprint, in the form of flying fists, hurled shot glasses and lots of running mascara.
