Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a line, an image forming section and an exposure control section. The image forming section develops, with developing agent, a latent image formed on a photoconductive drum through the light from the light-emitting elements which emit light according to printing data. The exposure control section controls the operations of the plurality of light-emitting elements according to shifted printing data obtained by shifting the printing data in a case where the number of printings based on the same printing data is more than one.

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