Stamp-face forming apparatus, method of forming a stamp face, and stamp-face forming system

A stamp-face forming system comprising:

• a stamp-face forming apparatus;
• and
• a computer apparatus,
• (i) wherein the stamp-face forming apparatus is for forming a stamp face on a stamp face material and comprises:
• a stamp-face forming unit which is provided with plural heating elements disposed so as to face a surface of the stamp face material, and which forms the stamp face on the stamp face material, wherein the stamp face material includes porous material which is adapted to become non-porous when heated, and the stamp face material is detachably held in a holding body and is at least partially coated with a film, and a conveyed object includes the stamp face material, the holding body and the film;
• a communication unit which communicates with the computer apparatus;
• and
• a controlling unit which controls the stamp-face forming unit based on data received by the communication unit, such that an amount of heat per unit area to be applied to a part of the film facing at least one of edge portions of the stamp face material is larger than an amount of heat per unit area applied to a part of the film facing a portion of the stamp face to be non-porous, and
• (ii) wherein the computer apparatus comprises:
• an image data producing unit which selects the stamp face material and produces or selects image data for forming the stamp face on the selected stamp face material by heating;
• an additionally-heating data producing unit which produces additionally-heating data used for heating the stamp face material such that the amount of heat per unit area to be applied to a portion close to the one of the edge portions of the stamp face material is larger than the amount of heat per unit area applied to other portion of the stamp face material, and superimposes the additionally-heating data on the image data for forming the stamp face, thereby superimposing the produced additionally-heating data on the image data produced by the image data producing unit;
• and
• an outputting unit which outputs the superimposed image-data to the communication unit of the stamp-face forming apparatus.