Patent ID: 8130626

Claim:
A recording apparatus that forms a latent image on a resist layer on a substrate by irradiating said resist layer with an exposure beam, comprising: a recording velocity setting unit that variably sets the recording velocity in formation of said latent image; a beam deflection unit that moves the irradiation position of said exposure beam relative to said substrate; a substrate velocity adjusting unit that adjusts the movement velocity of said substrate; and a control unit that varies the deflection velocity of said exposure beam by said beam deflection unit, as well as the movement velocity of said substrate by said substrate velocity adjusting unit, in response to variations in said recording velocity; wherein: said control unit varies the movement velocity of said substrate in a predetermined direction by said substrate velocity adjusting unit so that it is relatively faster in the sparse regions in which the distribution of a recording pattern in said predetermined direction is more sparse than a predetermined condition, than in the dense regions in which the distribution of said recording pattern in said predetermined direction is more dense than said predetermined condition.