ARRANGEMENT AND PROCESS FOR GENERATING A MATRIX IMAGE ON A PHOTOSENSITIVE RECORDING SUBSTRATE

An electrophotographic printing or copying machine contains as image source a laser diode array (10) having a multiplicity of individually excitable laser diodes (11) which are arranged thereon in a predetermined grid for forming an excitation pattern. Furthermore, a deflection unit (13) deflecting the light beams from the laser diode array (10) and imaging optics which are arranged between laser diode array (10) and photoconductor (17) and are configured in such a way that they image the excitation pattern of the image source optically and free of distortion on the photoconductor (17) as an image point pattern.