Patent ID: 7327377

Claim:
An exposure apparatus comprising: a first exposure head in which a plurality of light emitting sections which emit light with first intensity are arranged in a main scanning direction and in a sub scanning direction; a second exposure head in which a plurality of light emitting sections which emit light with second intensity are arranged in the main scanning direction and in the sub scanning direction in such a way that an exposure area including an overlapped exposure area overlapping an exposure area of the first exposure head is exposed by the second exposure head; and a driving control unit by which each of the light emitting sections of the first exposure head and the second exposure head is lit at a predetermined timing in such a way that a difference in the maximum exposure amount between pixels adjoining each other in the overlapped exposure area in the main scanning direction is smaller than a difference in the maximum exposure amount between each pixel in the exposure area of the first exposure head and each pixel in the exposure area of the second exposure head.