The phrase "a great impression of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the effect or influence that something or someone has on a person or group, often in a positive context.
Example: "The artist left a great impression of her talent on the audience during the performance."
Alternatives: "a strong impression of" or "a lasting impression of".
Alison Steadman does a great impression of a seal.
And I don't think that either is giving a great impression of the criminal justice system.
She does a great impression of Harman: head girl, Enid Blyton British, indefatigable.
I was like this,' she says, doing a great impression of herself slouching down into her coat.
Doing a great impression of Woods in his prime, Scott never backed off, kept the hammer down throughout the day and won by four shots.
It does a great impression of other parts of the world in these micro environments, then adds a bit of New Zealand on top.
Instead of making a great impression on the VP of sales who has flown into town just for your presentation, you end up feeling like an idiot and let your boss take over with his usual asinine ideas.
57 Consequently the commonplaces p347 on the subject of witnesses, documentary evidence, arguments and the like make a great impression on the minds of the judges, as also do those topics which are peculiar to the case, those I mean in which we praise or blame any action or show that it is just or unjust, or make it seem more or less important or more or less harsh than it really is.
– The New York Times "The fact that Jane Austen, in the course of her short life, published her books anonymously made a great impression on me as a girl of 15".
Before development started on F-Zero GX and AX, he mentioned abandoning the project due to personal pressures he faced to make a great impression on Nintendo and personal admiration of an established franchise.
