Patent attributes
A method and apparatus for compensating for scanning skew formed in an electrophotographic color image forming device. The method includes the step of making a scanning light that forms a scanning line ascend or descend in a sub-scanning direction within a range of one dot, and scanning the ascending or descending light in the main scanning direction. Also, the apparatus includes an optical scanner control unit which controls an optical scanning unit so that a scanning light that forms a scanning line ascends or descends in a sub-scanning direction within a range of one dot and the ascending or descending light is scanned in the main scanning direction.