To simply form a simple engraving plate in whcih the shape of an object is engraved, by providing an imaging unit for imaging the object, a display unit for displaying the image, and an operating unit for operating an automatic engraving unit, and automatically engraving the plate with the image imaged by the imaging unit.

A predetermined simple engraving plate is selected by an operating unit 6. A predetermined mode of four types of modes of a message input by the unit 6, the message and an object imaged by a camera 4 and an external video such as magazine or flier imaged by a camera 5, message and external video, and message and subject is selected. Further, a predetermined video is selected from a plurality of types of frame videos stored in a frame video storage area. After a mode process is executed based on the selected mode, a frame, subject, video data stored in an external storage area of a ROM 20 are combined, and a synthesized image is automatically engraved and delivered to the plate to be stored in a simple engraving plate processing and delivering unit 8.