Fingerprint is not a necessary condition for the will to take effect, and the absence of the decedent's fingerprint on the will does not change the validity of the will. Generally speaking, if the will meets the relevant requirements stipulated by law before pressing the fingerprint, the will can take effect without pressing the fingerprint; If the will does not meet the relevant requirements of the law before being fingerprinted, it will not take effect after being fingerprinted.

A necessary condition for judging the validity of a will is to sign it, not to press the fingerprint.

A will that can be printed by hand is usually a will written by yourself or a will written by someone else. The formal laws (inheritance laws) of these two wills are as follows:

Article 17, paragraph 2, A self-written will shall be written and signed by the testator, indicating the year, month and day.

Paragraph 3 of Article 17: A will that entrusts others to write on behalf of others shall be witnessed by two or more witnesses, and one of them shall write on behalf of others, indicating the year, month and day, and shall be signed by the agent, other witnesses and the testator.

From the above legal provisions, it is not difficult to see that both self-written wills and proxy wills do not need to be handprinted, but they all need to be signed. Therefore, handprint is not a necessary condition for a will, and whether handprint does not affect the validity of the will.