1. A method for printing with a laser imaging system having a plurality of lasers, the method comprising: printing a first set of M contiguous lines on a thermally sensitive medium in a first direction as a function of a first set of data; printing a second set of N contiguous lines on the thermally sensitive medium in the first direction as a function of a second set of data and a mask; and printing a third set of N contiguous lines on the thermally sensitive medium overlapping the second set of N lines as a function of the second set of data.