Patent ID: 6252621
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: B41J,G02B

Abstract:
A method for printing multiple images on a recording material by way of at least two multimode laser beams created by emitting apertures of at least two multimode lasers; said method comprising the steps of:forming with each of said multimode laser beams a spot having a long dimension and a short dimension, such that the long dimension of each of said spots corresponds to a long dimension of a respective emitting aperture of one of said multimode lasers; anddeflecting said multimode laser beams across the recording material such that (i) the long dimension of each of said spots is parallel to a scan direction, and (ii) so as to create a series of spaced apart swaths, each of which has a plurality of spaced apart image lines, the spacing between the image lines of one swath being different from the spacing between two adjacent swaths.