A halftone processing method for correcting the variation in light
intensity on a photoconductive drum and an apparatus using the same,
wherein the method includes the steps of preparing a plurality of
dithering functions, detecting the position where image data for forming
an electrostatic latent image is scanned on the photoconductive drum,
selecting one of the plurality of dithering functions according to the
detected scanning position, and halftone-processing the image data using
the selected dithering function. Accordingly, the halftone processing
method improves print quality by increasing light intensity at the edges
of a photoconductive drum by permitting the laser printer to be
halftone-processed using dithering functions whose critical values are
different for the center and the edges of the photoconductive drum.