A method for correcting the skewed recording of a printing original on a recording material in an exposer includes the steps of projecting, with an exposure head, a linear array of exposure points generated by N laser beams onto the recording material and moving the exposure head continuously along an exposure drum in axial feeding direction as the exposure drum rotates. As a result, the printing original is recorded along a helix wound around the exposure drum. The laser beams are modulated with image data that is taken from a stored image point matrix along an angled read path, the read path running through the image point matrix at an angle formed by the helix with respect to a circumferential line of the exposure drum.