Patent ID: 8587625

Claim:
A laser scanning assembly comprising: a controller configured to: control a rotation speed for a photoconductive drum; control a rotation of a reflective element that reflects a single laser beam onto the photoconductive drum; and control a laser unit to generate the laser beam to scan the photoconductive drum with the laser beam at a reduced level along a first scan line on the photoconductive drum, and control the generation of the laser beam to scan the photoconductive drum with the laser beam at the reduced level along a second scan line on the photoconductive drum, wherein the second scan line overlaps with the first scan line at an overlapping portion to reduce banding such that a desired amount of charge is removed from the overlapping portion by the laser beam and less than the desired amount of charge is removed from a non-overlapping portion that is adjacent to the overlapping portion by the laser beam, and a corresponding dot is formed at least partially within the overlapping portion and partially in the non-overlapping portion.