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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2002
Hiroshi Nomoto, Kyoto, JP;
Takahide Hirawa, Kyoto, JP;
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An image quality on a recording material is influenced by, for example, the sensitivity of a developer for use in developing the recording material. Compensating for the lowering of the sensitivity of the developer requires increasing the amount of emission of a laser beam. However, there is a difference in the amount of change between dimensions, in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, of a dot blackened depending on the increase in the amount of emission of the laser beam. Increasing or decreasing the time duration of emission of the laser beam by a predetermined amount achieves adjustment of the dimension of the dot in the main scanning direction. Specifically, there is provided a memory for storing therein the sensitivity of the developer, the amount of emission of the laser beam and the time duration of emission of the laser beam in corresponding relation to each other, and the emission from a laser light source is adjusted by reading the amount and time duration of emission corresponding to the sensitivity of the developer from the memory.