Patent ID: 6011575
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, comprising:an image forming member on which an image is formed pixel by pixel for each image data, wherein each pixel has a maximum recording width;an exposure array in which a plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of image focusing elements are aligned in an array form and each light emitting element is mounted with a setting width, wherein each light emitting element has a mount-shaped light amount distribution curve in which light amount data spread to both sides of a peak corresponding to the maximum light amount; andcontrol means for dividing each pixel into plural small pixels corresponding to plural neighboring light emitting elements and for controlling the plural neighboring light emitting elements in accordance with the image data of each pixel so that an image of each pixel is formed in the maximum recording width of each pixel by the plural neighboring light emitting elements, wherein an image forming width at the light amount of 50% of the maximum light amount of each light emitting element is wider than the setting width of the light emitting element and is narrower than the maximum recording width of each pixel.