Patent ID: 6992795

Claim:
An electrophotographic apparatus, which utilizes toner of a plurality of colors and represents a halftone of each color through use of halftone spots, thereby to reproduce an image, each halftone spot being formed of a plurality of dots, said apparatus comprising: a halftone processing section which produces image reproduction data having area and location in terms of a virtual development region within said dots based on halftone data corresponding to each of said plurality of dots, by reference to a conversion table; the conversion table being formed so as to correspond to the dots, and defining a correspondence between the halftone data pertaining to respective colors and image reproduction information; and an image reproduction engine which produces a latent image by radiation of a beam onto said virtual development region within the dots, and causes the toner to adhere to the latent image, to thereby form a real development region, wherein at least one halftone spot has a different area of the virtual development region from an area of the virtual development region of another halftone spot while the real development regions of said at least one halftone spot and of said another halftone spot have a substantially same area, with respect to a single halftone level.