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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To print even characters of peculiar styles, to arbitrarily change the thickness of lines and also to make clear prints of fine characters or the like, in printing equipment wherein printing is conducted by hot stamping or laser engraving. SOLUTION: After a printing material 14 is set at an operating position, a printing means 11 is moved relatively for the printing material 14 on the basis of character data inputted from a computer 2 and characters corresponding to the character data are printed on the material 14. As for a printing method for this constitution, three-dimensional coordinates data having virtual depth data on the assumed engraved characters are used for control of the moving extent of the printing means 11, in addition to longitudinal and lateral two-dimensional coordinates data at a large number of sample points set on the center lines of the lines constituting the characters, and the line widths of the characters are set in proportion to the depth data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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