Patent ID: 6812946
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: G03B,G03D

Abstract:
An image forming device comprising:an exposure section having a laser irradiating device which irradiates and scans, on a sheet-shaped recording material, laser light which has been modulated on the basis of image data, and an exposing/conveying device for conveying the recording material, and scanning by the laser irradiating device is main scanning and conveying by the exposing/conveying device is subscanning, and the exposure section records an image by the main scanning and the subscanning; a heat developing section having an insertion portion, and conveying and heat developing the recording material on which an image has been formed, and wherein a path length between a scanning position and the insertion portion is shorter than a conveying direction length of the recording material, and wherein given that a conveying speed in the exposure section is V1 and a conveying speed in the heat developing section is V2, a relationship 0.72/V1&lE;1.0 is satisfied.