P. Amster, J.P. Borgna, M.C. Mariani, D.F. Rial Solutions to the mean curvature equation for nonparemetric surfaces by fixed point methods (17K, tex) ABSTRACT. We study the existence of solutions for the equation of prescribed mean curvature when the surface is the graph of $u:\overline{\Omega }\longrightarrow R$, with mean curvature $H(x,y,u(x,y))$. We give conditions on the boundary data in order to obtain at least one solution for the quasilinear Dirichlet problem (1) below, with $H$ a given continuous function.