Patent ID: 7030899

Claim:
An apparatus for forming an image onto a photosensitive recording medium, said apparatus comprising: a light source, including a plurality of light-emitting elements aligned within a predetermined width for emitting a corresponding plurality of light beams; an exposure-controlling section to individually control respective intensities of respective ones of the light beams emitted by said plurality of light-emitting elements; and a memory section to store light-intensity compensation data for each of said plurality of light-emitting elements that emit the plurality of controlled light beams; wherein said image is formed by simultaneously exposing said light beams onto said photosensitive recording medium; wherein said exposure-controlling section controls each of said plurality of light-emitting elements that emit the plurality of controlled light beams based on said light-intensity compensation data corresponding thereto, so that said intensities of said controlled light beams substantially coincide with preset corresponding target intensities; wherein said light beams emitted by said plurality of light-emitting elements comprise light beams having different wavelengths corresponding to colors of cyan, magenta and yellow, and each color of cyan, magenta and yellow is developed on said photosensitive recording medium to form a full color image on said photosensitive recording medium; and wherein said exposure-controlling section comprises a recognizer for recognizing light beams corresponding to colors of cyan and magenta, and said expoxure-controlling section only controls the intensities of light beams corresponding to said colors of cyan and magenta.