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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2004
Yuji Shimoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Fujii, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Nakaya, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-drawing device, which carries out image-drawing on the basis of image-drawing data, has image-drawing heads which are moved relatively in a predetermined scanning direction along an image-drawing surface. The image-drawing heads have a large number of image-drawing elements lined-up two-dimensionally within a plane which is parallel to the image-drawing surface. The straight lines along which the plural image-drawing elements are lined-up are inclined, with respect to the scanning direction, at a predetermined inclination angle such that an image-drawing magnification has an effective value after a decimal point. A data allocating unit allocates the image-drawing data to the respective image-drawing elements at predetermined timings corresponding to a resolution determined in accordance with the image-drawing magnification. In this way, resolution in the scanning direction can be increased without making a scanning speed of the image-drawing heads slower or making a modulation speed of the image-drawing elements faster.