Disclosed is a caption printer (1) for imprinting captions on a film (2) by pressing each cut of the film on a copperplate (3), in which the copperplates are automatically dispensed, carried, and stored. The caption printer has a dispenser casing (10) containing a plurality of copperplates (3) stored in the dispenser casing in such an order as to be automatically dispensed one by one according to a predetermined program. A clamping section (30) of the caption printer clamps and locates the copperplates (3) one by one at an exact position under the film (2) and a pressing plate (13) for pressing the film on the copperplate. A carrying section (20) and a supplying section (40) carry each of the copperplates dispensed from the dispenser casing (10) to the clamping section (30), and also carry each of the copperplates from the clamping section to a storing position (11) after using the copperplates in imprinting the caption on the film.
