Patent ID: 7535483

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: plural photoconductive bodies for forming a color image; an exposure unit configured to scan a laser light in a main scanning direction of each of the plural photoconductive bodies and to perform exposure; and a light amount correction unit configured to create, for each of the plural photoconductive bodies, light amount correction data for correcting a light amount of the laser light outputted from the exposure unit so that a light receiving sensitivity of each of the plural photoconductive bodies in the main scanning direction becomes uniform, wherein the light amount correction unit includes a first storage unit configured to store reference correction data, a second storage unit configured to store relative correction data represented, when the reference correction data is made an absolute amount, by a relative amount correspondingly to each of the plural photoconductive bodies, and a combining unit configured to combine the reference correction data and the relative correction data to create the light amount correction data.