Patent ID: 8432424

Claim:
A printer comprising: a multi-beam device including a plurality of light beam sources; a transfer medium that interacts with the multi-beam device to print an image onto a print medium, wherein the print medium comprises a page; a first sensor to detect at least one light beam generated by one of the plurality of light beam sources of the multi-beam device; a second sensor to detect a top of the page of the print medium when the top of the page is located at a selected location on the transfer medium; and a controller configured to during a first pass of the transfer medium of the multi-beam printer, determine a first time interval between (i) when the at least one light beam from one of the plurality of light beam sources is detected and (ii) when the top of the page of the print medium is detected at the selected location on the transfer medium, wherein the first pass forms a first color plane of a latent image on the transfer medium, wherein the latent image is associated with the image; and based at least in part on the first time interval, select a first light beam source of the plurality of light beam sources to begin illuminating the transfer medium to create the first color plane on the transfer medium during the first pass of the transfer medium.