Patent ID: 8436882

Claim:
A method for forming an image on media, comprising: controlling an imaging head to emit radiation beams to form the image while scanning over the media along a scan direction, wherein the image comprises a feature that includes an edge portion that extends in a direction that is skewed by a skew angle with respect to the scan direction, and wherein each radiation beam is controllable to vary a size of a pixel formed on the media by the radiation beam; determining at least one size of each pixel of a plurality of pixels to be formed on the media, each pixel having a first size along a first direction and a second size along a second direction that intersects the first direction, wherein the second size is different than the first size and is determined based at least on the skew angle and the first size; controlling the imaging head to emit a group of the radiation beams to form a stair-case arrangement of the plurality of pixels along the edge portion of the feature, wherein each radiation beam of the group of the radiation beams is controlled to form each of the pixels of the stair-case arrangement with the first size and the determined second size; and comprising rotating the imaging head to form each pixel of the plurality pixels with a size equal to one of the first size and the determined second size.