Patent · US Expired

Optical recording apparatus

US5592207A · kind A · utility

6Cited by
14References
22Claims
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Filing dateSep 16, 1992
Grant dateJan 7, 1997
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Expiry dateSep 16, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K15/1228
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A laser printer can record high definition and high quality images without requiring any increase of electrical and mechanical design precision for increasing a scanning line density thereof. The laser beam is deflected in a primary scanning direction and a subsidiary scanning direction. With such scanning, an artificial scanning line along an edge of a recording image can be established for accurately recording an oblique line, a curved line, a barbel portion of a character, a half-tone image or so forth.

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