Color image forming device

摘要

A color image forming device that can certainly correct uniform velocity error associated with the characteristic of each optical system and can realize high-quality color image printing by performing a fine laser beam irradiating position control, in consideration of an error in surface accuracy of each mirror surface of a rotary polygon mirror. The color image forming device includes a storage unit for holding uniform velocity correction data previously created for each mirror surface of a rotary polygon mirror to correct a distortion in expansion or contraction of the electrostatic latent image in the main scanning direction due to the characteristic of an optical system, and an image clock generating unit for reading uniform velocity correction data on each mirror surface used in the rotary polygon mirror at a scanning time out of the storage unit and then generating image clock pulses for image signal creation with a period corresponding to the uniform velocity correction data. The color image forming device is applicable to printers of electro-photographic systems, electrostatic-recording systems, and the like.