[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.