The present invention is a light collector (36) for an LED array for efficiently collecting and collimating light from the LEDs, and projecting the light into an optical wave guide (46) which directs that light onto a photoreceptor surface. Each LED is centered in a hemispherical cavity (40) in the collector array in order that radiation from the LED enters the collector essentially unrefracted. The collector array provides a convex lens portion (32) and a parabolic reflecting surface portion (34). Light that leaves the LED generally away from the substrate supporting the LED, is incident on the convex lens and is collimated. Light leaving generally along the substrate strikes a parabolic reflecting surface at greater than the critical angle and is also collimated. The two concentric collimated beams are combined and applied to the photoreceptor surface via a light pipe or opticl wave guide secured to the collector.