摘要:
A toner manufacturing method includes grinding and classification to produce a toner containing a binder resin and a colorant with a weight mean particle size of 5 microns to 12 microns and sharp particle density distribution. The toner has a specific circularity, relationship between cut ratio and weight mean size, and relationship between circularity and weight mean size as disclosed in the specification.
摘要:
A toner has toner particles containing at least a binder resin, a colorant and a sulfur-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a sulfur-containing polymer and a sulfur-containing copolymer. The toner has a weight-average particle diameter of from 5 &mgr;m to 12 &mgr;m, and the toner has, in its particles of 3 &mgr;m or larger in diameter, at least 90% by number of particles with a circularity of 0.900 or higher, and has a specific relationship between the cut rate Z and the toner weight-average particle diameter X and a specific relationship between the number-based cumulative value Y of particles with a circularity of 0.950 or higher and the toner weight-average particle diameter X. Also disclosed are an image-forming method and a process cartridge which make use of the toner.
摘要:
The present invention aims to provide a toner having excellent developability and excellent low-temperature fixability without causing adhesion of ejected sheets even in a high-speed oilless fixing system and capable of preventing a frameless printing from causing a twisted offseting phenomenon. Specifically, provided is a toner having toner particles including at least a binder resin and a colorant, in which, when the toner is dissolved in a tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvent at 25° C. for 24 hours, the ratio of a THF-soluble matter having an intrinsic viscosity of 5.0×10−2 dl/g or less with respect to the total amount of the THF-soluble matter in a GPC-RALLS-viscometer analysis is 15.0 mass % to 60.0 mass %, and the ratio of a THF-soluble matter having an intrinsic viscosity of 1.5×10−1 dl/g or more with respect to the total amount of the THF-soluble matter in a GPC-RALLS-viscometer analysis is 20.0 mass % to 40.0 mass %.
摘要:
In a toner having a polyester resin as a binder resin component, and a colorant, the toner contains (a) in the binder resin component, from 20.0% by weight to 65.0% by weight of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter A1 in 6-hour extraction and from 35.0% by weight to 80.0% by weight of a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter A2 in 6-hour extraction, (b) in the binder resin component, from 10.0% by weight to 30.0% by weight of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter B1 in 16-hour extraction and from 70.0% by weight to 90.0% by weight of a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter B2 in 16-hour extraction, and (c) in the binder resin component, from 0.5% by weight to 3.0% by weight of an orthodichloro-benzene-insoluble matter C1 in 6-hour extraction at 185° C. and from 97.0% by weight to 99.5% by weight of an orthodichlorobenzene-soluble matter C2 in 6-hour extraction at 185° C. The proportion of C1 to B1, C1/B1, is from 0.06 to 0.15, and the A1, B1 and C1 satisfy the following expression (1): A1>B1>C1. Expression (1) A process cartridge makes use of this toner.
摘要:
A toner having a stable chargeability in various environments, a stable fixability over a wide temperature range and a resistance to sticking on an image-bearing member, is formed of a binder resin, a colorant and an azo iron compound as a charge control agent. The azo iron compound is formed from a monoazo compound having at least one alkyl group and two hydroxyl groups capable of bonding with an iron atom. The toner has a tetrahydrofuran-soluble content providing a gel-permeation chromatogram showing at least one peak in a molecular weight region of 3×103 to 5×104 and at least one peak or shoulder in a molecular weight region of above 5×104 and at most 1×107.
摘要:
A toner is principally constituted by a binder resin, a colorant and a hydrocarbon wax. The hydrocarbon wax has a hydroxyl value (Hv) of 5-150 mgKOH/g and an ester value (Ev) of 1-50 mgKOH/g satisfying Hv>Ev. Further, the toner has a tetrahydrofuran-soluble content providing a gel-permeation chromatogram showing at least one peak in a molecular weight region of 3×103 to 5×104 and at least one peak or shoulder in a molecular weight region of 1×105 to 1×107.
摘要:
A dry magnetic toner is formed of magnetic toner particles comprising a binder resin and magnetic iron oxide particles. The magnetic toner is provided with excellent developing performances and transferability by controlling the presence of isolated iron-containing particles and containing a high percentage of spherical particles, the amount of which is controlled relative to the weight-average particle size of the magnetic toner and a content of particles of 3 &mgr;m or below in the magnetic toner.
摘要:
A toner comprising toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the binder resin includes a resin having an endothermic peak at a temperature of 55° C. to 120° C. in a DSC curve; the toner has a softening point Tm of 90° C. to 140° C.; in the viscoelastic characteristic of the toner measured at a frequency of 6.28 rad/sec, the storage elastic modulus at a temperature of 180° C. is 1.0×102 Pa to 1.0×104 Pa; in a chart with the temperature on the x-axis and tan δ on the y-axis, tan δ has a peak having a peak top in the range of 50° C. to 70° C.; tan δ (P) at the peak top temperature is 2.0 to 10.0; the ratio of the tan δ (P) at the peak top temperature to tan δ (Tm) at a temperature of Tm (tan δ (P)/tan δ (Tm)) is in the range of 2.5 to 8.0.
摘要:
An image-forming method includes forming an electrostatic image on an electrostatic image bearing member which has been charged; developing the electrostatic image to form a toner image; transferring the toner image on the electrostatic image bearing member with or without mediating an intermediate transferring member onto a transfer material; and fixing the toner image on the transfer material. The electrostatic image bearing member is a photosensitive member obtained by sequentially laminating a photoconductive layer and a surface layer formed of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide, and a sum of an atomic density of silicon atoms and an atomic density of carbon atoms in the surface layer of the photosensitive member is 6.60×1022 atoms/cm3 or more. The toner has a binder resin and magnetic iron oxide particles, and the magnetic iron oxide particles contain Fe(2+) at a content of 20.0 mass % or more and 25.0 mass % or less.
摘要:
Provided is a magnetic toner capable of providing a stable image by suppressing sleeve contamination even under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment and under a normal-temperature and low-humidity environment and further suppressing large-particle fogging caused after the toner is left alone for a week. The magnetic toner contains toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide particle, in which the binder resin has a polyester unit, the toner has i) a dielectric loss factor at 40° C. and 100 kHz of 0.50 pF/m or more but 0.90 pF/m or less, and ii) a true specific gravity of 1.50 g/cm3 or more but 1.85 g/cm3 or less.
摘要翻译:提供一种即使在高温高湿环境下也能在常温低湿环境下即使通过抑制套筒污染来提供稳定图像的磁性调色剂,并且进一步抑制了在调色剂剩余之后引起的大颗粒起雾 独自一个星期。 磁性调色剂含有调色剂颗粒,每个调色剂颗粒含有粘合剂树脂和磁性氧化铁颗粒,其中粘合剂树脂具有聚酯单元,调色剂具有i)在40℃和100kHz的介电损耗系数为0.50 pF / m以上,0.90pF / m以下,ii)真比重为1.50g / cm 3以上,1.85g / cm 3以下。