Abstract: An arrangement for focussing a laser beam onto the imaging surface of a laser graphics imaging apparatus includes a viewing stage having a focussing lens and an associated eye lens that are mutually displaceable along a first optical axis through which the imaging surface is monitored in the course of the formation of a laser graphics pattern. Coupled with the viewing stage is a laser-beam imaging stage having a beam diameter adjustment lens and a beam splitter disposed along a second optical axis which intersects the first optical axis. The location of the beam splitter is such that a laser beam incident along the optical axis of the laser beam-imaging stage is directed through and focussed by the focussing lens onto the imaging surface. Displacement of the beam diameter adjustment lens causes the diameter of the pattern-forming laser beam to be varied.