The invention is directed to compensating for imaging aberrations that result from repeated passes by an imaging laser array. The techniques described herein reduce the undesirable aberrations. In general, the techniques provide for printing a first line of image data and a set of contiguous lines as a function of the image data and a first mask. On a subsequent pass, these lines are overlapped. The line that overlaps the first line prints the image data again, but masked. The lines that overlap the contiguous lines print the image data normally.