Dynamic Characteristic Improvement of Laser Scanning Unit for Laser Beam Printer

레이저 프린터용 광스캔유닛(LSU) 의 동특성 개선

The performance of printer can be determined by the printing speed, noise level, printing quality which includes the resolution, regularity of printed matter and etc. Among them, printing quality mostly depends on the irregularity of the line spacing and dot size. The irregular line spacing and dot size in laser beam printer are mainly from the jitter which comes from the vibration of Organic Photo Conductive(OPC) drum and the Laser Scanning Unit(LSU). Jitter due to the vibration of LSU appears as high-frequency component which occurs 100-300$\mu\textrm{m}$ interval in printed matter and the causes of it can be estimated as the vibration of polygon motor, case, reflecting mirror and etc. In this paper, vibration characteristics of the LSU under development are investigated and the strategy for improvement of the dynamic characteristics is established and its validity is demonstrated.