PURPOSE: To enable to print a kanji (Chinese letters) with a simple structure without increasing the system by disassembling and storing the side and the radical of the kanji in a letter generator which stores letter data and printing separately the side and the radical of the kanji.

CONSTITUTION: Letter pattern data forming one letter are stored, for example, in 5×7 dot matrix in a letter generator 10 of read-only memory, and a matrix MH indicating the side of the kanji and a matric MT indicating the radical of the kanji are separately formed in patterns. A controller 11 receives a typing data signal 13, and letter data corresponding to the signal is read from the generator 10. At this time, in case of the kanji, one letter is transmitted with two bytes of the data DH of the side and the data DT of the radical of the kanji are. After these data are stored in an RAM17, the kanjis of one column are edited and are stored in an RAM19, and are colored and recorded by a head 29, and the kanji is printed and recorded with two matrixes.