Printer for recording an image on a recording material

A printer for recording an image on a recording material, comprising:

• a light source to emit irradiation light;
• a reflecting device to reflect said irradiation light, said reflecting device being integrated with a plurality of micro-reflectors, which are arrayed in two-dimensional directions of rows and lines, and each of which is independently controllable to vary a reflection angle of said irradiation light emitted from said light source;
• a light guide to guide reflection light, reflected by said reflecting device, to a predetermined position on said recording material, said light guide having a two-dimensional light-receiving surface including a plurality of linear light guides, which are arranged in a vertical direction of said micro-reflectors so that each of them corresponds to each of said lines of said micro-reflectors, and a linear light-outputting surface at which said plurality of linear light guides are rearranged in a linear direction of said image so that a single scanning line of said image is irradiated onto said recording material corresponding to a two-dimensional image of said micro-reflectors;
• and
• a conveying device to convey said recording material in a predetermined direction;
• wherein a light intensity at an end part of each linear light guide, being adjacent to a next linear light guide, is reduced to a half of its normal light intensity so that transition points from one linear light guide to next linear light guide on said single scanning line of said image exhibit normal light intensities.