Patent ID: 8885006

Claim:
A laser scanning assembly for printing an image, comprising: a controller configured to: control a laser unit to generate a laser beam to scan a photoconductive drum at a reduced level along a first scan line on the photoconductive drum; control the laser unit to generate the laser beam to scan the photoconductive drum at the reduced level along a second scan line on the photoconductive drum that overlaps with the first scan line to form an overlapping portion, and control the laser unit to generate laser beams to scan the photoconductive drum at the reduced level along subsequent scan lines to overlap with preceding scan lines to form subsequent overlapping portions for the entirety of the printing of the image; wherein a desired amount of charge is removed from the overlapping portions on the photoconductive drum and less than the desired amount of charge is removed from non-overlapping portions on the photoconductive drum, so that dots for printing the image are formed within the overlapping portions on the photoconductive drum and dots for printing the image are not formed on the non-overlapping portions on the photoconductive drum.