A method and a test form for equalizing exposure heads of an exposer recording printing originals onto a recording material with exposure heads, with regard to the area coverage recorded. Each head contains a laser module generating a laser beam and focusing it onto the material. Each head records a recording band, the laser beams sweeping over the recording material in a main scanning direction while the heads are moved along the material in a secondary scanning direction. A test exposure is carried out, in which each head records a test form having test areas and a background area in its recording band. The area coverage recorded of the background area is compared visually with area coverages recorded of test areas of an adjacent test form and, from differences thereof in adjacent test forms, corrective values for the laser power of the laser modules in the exposure heads are calculated.