Patent ID: 8363080
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image forming method comprising: dividing first image data into a plurality of second image data representing first and second segments of a line each to be scanned over an entire length of a main scanning line in a main scanning direction; and modulating the second image data to generate image signals to correspond to the respective first and second line segments and emitting a plurality of laser beams according to the image signals such that a first laser forms an entire dummy line at a first main-scanning line and a second laser forms data of a second line at a second main-scanning line followed by the plurality of first and second laser beams alternately contributing the first and second line segments in an overlapping manner over the entire length of a main scanning line to form at least one main-scanning line of an electrostatic latent image of the first image data on a photosensitive body.