Patent Document ID: 9933722
Application ID: 15193480
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image forming method, comprising: identifying a position of a reference area and a position of an image area on a surface of a recording medium for forming thereon an image pattern of an image; setting a first part of pixels of an exposure pattern that corresponds to a first portion of the image area outside the reference area as a non-exposure pixel group; setting a second part of the pixels of the exposure pattern that corresponds to a second portion of the image area on an edge of the image area as a high-output exposure pixel group, the first portion and the second portion of the image area being on opposite sides of the image area; exposing a surface of an image bearer to form an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearer, including exposing a third part of the pixels different from the non-exposure pixel group and the high-output exposure pixel group according to a predetermined optical output value, and exposing the high-output exposure pixel group according to an optical output value that is higher than the predetermined optical output value; and forming the image on the recording medium based on the electrostatic latent image.