Patent ID: 6667755
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
A method of recording a two-dimensional image on a photosensitive medium by exposure to light beams which are emitted from a plurality of light sources arrayed in an auxiliary scanning direction and applied to scan the photosensitive medium in a main scanning direction and the auxiliary scanning direction, comprising:dividing the two-dimensional image into a plurality of divided two-dimensional images in the auxiliary scanning direction; setting the numbers of main scanning lines to be recorded or not to be recorded for the two-dimensional images with the light sources, depending on intervals in the auxiliary scanning direction on the photosensitive medium between the light beams emitted from adjacent ones of the light sources; and simultaneously starting or ending to record the two-dimensional images according to the set numbers of scanning lines, wherein each of the light sources records a continuous divided two-dimensional image.