[teshigahara]

"Print characters" aren't hand painted on signs and you will rarely see it written in any context outside of extremely old books. There's no such thing as "print characters", anyway. Presumably you are referring to 明朝体 (although that sign you linked is actually 丸ゴシック, which is much more recent).

Besides, even if it was written down like that it will still be incredibly obvious. It would be like if you had your child try to copy Times New Roman and pass it off as the real thing. It's actually harder than writing normally unless you have a stencil.

[krisoft]

> It would be like if you had your child try to copy Times New Roman and pass it off as the real thing.

Copying a shape exactly is absolutely possible. (Any shape.) Yes most people doesn’t have the skills to pull it off, but then again they are also not making lathes in captivity (or at all).

> It's actually harder than writing normally unless you have a stencil.

Then you make a stencil.

> There's no such thing as "print characters", anyway.

It will be hard to convince me about that when my eyes can see it. You can choose to not understand what I’m saying.

> Presumably you are referring to 明朝体

I assure you it is not called that in English.