摘要:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a latent electrostatic image bearing member; a charging unit configured to uniformly charge a surface of the image bearing member; an exposing unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the surface of the charged image bearing member; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image formed on the surface of the image bearing member by supplying a toner to form a visible image; a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image formed on the surface of the image bearing member to a recording medium; a fixing unit configured to fix the visible image on the recording medium by application of at least one of heat and pressure; a cleaning unit configured to clean a residual toner on the image bearing member; and a toner replenishing device configured to replenish the toner to the developing unit, wherein the toner is replenished by the toner replenishing device comprising a pump configured to supply the toner and a toner container arranged in conjunction with the pump, and wherein the toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent and has a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.15 to 0.35.
摘要:
An object of the invention is to provide: a toner such that the toner corresponds to a low-temperature fixing system, is excellent in both of offset resistance and anti-heat preservability and especially, even after a large number of copies are to be produced over a long period, the toner does not aggregate to each other, deterioration of flowability, transferability, and fixing ability is extremely rare, the toner makes it possible to form stable images on any transferring medium without transfer errors and with good reproducibility, and further does not contaminate fixing unit and images; or the like. Therefore, provided is a toner comprising: a toner material; and resin fine particles on a surface of the toner; wherein the toner has a glass-transition temperature, Tg, of from 30°C to 46°C, the resin fine particles have a glass-transition temperature, Tg, of from 50°C to 70°C, and wherein, when the toner has been masticated with Labo Plastomill, the toner has a 1/2 flown-out temperature of from 95°C to 120°C, and before the mastication of the toner, the toner has a 1/2 flown-out temperature of from 120°C to 145°C.
摘要:
An image forming method including: forming a toner image (T) on a support (11) using a toner including toner particles; and feeding the support bearing the toner image thereon through a nip (N) between an endless toner heating member (3) and a pressure roller (4) to fix the toner image on the support, wherein the endless toner heating member is rotated while stretched by a fixing roller (2) and a heat roller (1) which includes a magnetic metal and which is heated by electromagnetic induction, and wherein the pressure roller presses the support to the endless toner heating member and the fixing roller at the nip, wherein the toner particles are prepared by a polymerizing method using a binder resin containing at least a modified polyester resin.
摘要:
The object is to provide a toner which can be smoothly replrenished by a toner replenishing device using a powder pump even when the toner containes a releasing agent, and an image forming apparatus using the toner. There is provided a toner, which comprises a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent, has a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.15 to 0.35, and is replenished by the toner replenishing device having a powder pump configured to automatically supply the toner and a toner container arranged in conjuction with the powder pump so as to develop a latent electrostatic image on a image bearing member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a latent electrostatic image bearing member; a charging unit configured to uniformly charge a surface of the image bearing member; an exposing unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the surface of the charged image bearing member; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image formed on the surface of the image bearing member by supplying a toner to form a visible image; a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image formed on the surface of the image bearing member to a recording medium; a fixing unit configured to fix the visible image on the recording medium by application of at least one of heat and pressure; a cleaning unit configured to clean a residual toner on the image bearing member; and a toner replenishing device configured to replenish the toner to the developing unit, wherein the toner is replenished by the toner replenishing device comprising a pump configured to supply the toner and a toner container arranged in conjunction with the pump, and wherein the toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent and has a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.15 to 0.35.