Patent ID: 7212225

Claim:
An image recording method for recording an image formed by a group of light source elements disposed in a two-dimensional manner on a recording medium, comprising: moving at plural times an image recording position on the recording medium by the group of light source elements in a direction that contains a component in at least one of two-dimensional disposing directions of the group of light source elements during the recording of an image of one frame having a size of one image area to be recorded at one time by the group of light source elements on the recording medium, in accordance with a set magnification for changing resolution per recording pixel of the group of light source elements; modulating at plural times, in response to respective movements at the plural times, each recording pixel of the group of light source elements in accordance with the image of one frame to be recorded; and exposing the recording medium at the plural times to each modulated recording pixel of the group of light source elements to record the image of the one frame to be recorded on the recording medium.