1. A printing system comprising: an image capture device for capturing and storing an image of a user's handwritten alphanumeric characters, wherein each handwritten alphanumeric character is represented by a plurality of points, each point having x and y coordinates; memory for storing the handwritten alphanumeric characters in association with a standard alphanumeric character set, wherein the stored handwritten alphanumeric characters each comprise two mathematical functions defining a shape of the corresponding stored handwritten alphanumeric character, the first mathematical function corresponding to the x coordinates of the plurality of points and the second mathematical function corresponding to the y coordinates of the plurality of points, and wherein the mathematical function is a Taylor Series, a Maclaurin Series, a piecewise continuous Taylor Series, or a piecewise continuous Maclaurin Series; memory for storing a text document; and a processor for transcribing the text document into the stored handwritten alphanumeric characters.
4. The printing system of claim 1 wherein the capture device is selected from the group consisting of a camera, a digitizing tablet, and a scanner.