摘要:
An image forming method, comprising passing a toner image-bearing sheet through a nip defined between two rollers including a heater roller to fix the toner image on the sheet, wherein the toner image is formed from a toner comprising a binder resin, and a colorant, wherein the toner image before the passage through the nip has a toner volume V1 and a toner image area S1, wherein the toner image after the passage through the nip has a toner volume V2 and a toner image area S2, and wherein a volume change Vt and an area change St defined by the formulas shown below are 30% or less and 20% or less, respectively: Vt(%)=(V1−V2)/V1×100 St(%)=(S2−S2)/S1×100. Alternatively, the toner image before the passage through the nip has a surface roughness of 2.5 μm or less.
摘要:
A toner for a two-component developer comprising the toner and carrier particles, the developer being used for an oilless fixing-type image forming apparatus comprising a developer carrier rotatable at a linear speed of 360-1,680 mm/sec, and a developer adjusting member extending in a lateral direction parallel to the rotational axis of the developer carrier and disposed adjacent to the developer carrier to define a gap therebetween of 0.3-1.0 mm, said image forming apparatus being operated so that the amount of the developer conveyed by the developer carrier and passing through the gap per 1 second is 5.0-25.0 g per 1 cm of the lateral width of the gap, the toner comprising a wax dispersed therein and the toner having a coefficient of dynamic friction in the range of 0.18-0.45.
摘要:
A toner for forming a full color image, which includes a colorant and a binder resin including a polyester resin which is prepared by a polycondensation ester reaction in the presence of a titanium-containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of halogenated titanium, titanium diketone enolates, titanium carboxylates, titanyl carboxylates, and salts of titanyl carboxylates. A toner kit including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner and a black toner, wherein each of the toners is the toner mentioned above. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; a charger; a light irradiator; a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic latent image with a developer including the toner mentioned above; a transfer device; and a fixing device.
摘要:
A positively-chargeable toner includes a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a quaternary-ammonium-base containing copolymer with a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 25,000, which included a repeat unit of formula (I), and a repeat unit of formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sup.3 is an alkylene group, and R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are an alkyl group. The quaternary-ammonium-base containing copolymer may further include a repeat unit of formula (III): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.7 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R.sup.8 is an alkyl group.
摘要:
Carrier particles for use in a two-component dry-type developer for developing latent electrostatic images comprising a core particle and a silicone resin layer coated on the core particle, the silicone resin layer comprising a silicone resin, an organic tin compound and finely-divided electroconductive particles.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing toner including the steps of preparing a preliminary mixture by mixing a colorant and a release agent; preparing a raw material mixture by mixing the preliminary mixture with a binder resin and other raw materials; melt-kneading the raw material mixture using an open system roll type kneader; pulverizing the melt-kneaded raw material mixture into fine particles; and classifying the fine particles to prepare a toner.
摘要:
A production method for a full-color toner for electrophotography includes melt-kneading a toner material by use of an open-roll kneader, the toner material containing at least a binder resin, a wax, a colorant, and a charge control agent, wherein Mze/Mzi is 0.3 to 0.7, where Mze is a Z-average molecular weight of a resin component of the toner material to be supplied in the open-roll kneader, and Mzi is a Z-average molecular weight of a resin component of a kneaded product to be discharged from the open-roll kneader, and wherein a zirconium compound of a salicylic acid derivative is used as the charge control agent.
摘要:
An image forming method, comprising passing a toner image-bearing sheet through a nip defined between two rollers including a heater roller to fix the toner image on the sheet, wherein the toner image is formed from a toner comprising a binder resin, and a colorant, wherein the toner image before the passage through the nip has a toner volume V1 and a toner image area S1, wherein the toner image after the passage through the nip has a toner volume V2 and a toner image area S2, and wherein a volume change Vt and an area change St defined by the formulas shown below are 30% or less and 20% or less, respectively: Vt(%)=(V1−V2)/V1×100 St(%)=(S2−S1)/S1×100. Alternatively, the toner image before the passage through the nip has a surface roughness of 2.5 μm or less.
摘要:
A toner including a resin and a colorant which is dispersed in the toner and which has an average major particle diameter not greater than about 0.5 &mgr;m, wherein the following relationships are satisfied: Ta≦100 (° C.), and (Tb−Ta)≧7.0 (° C.), wherein Ta represents a temperature at which the toner has a melt viscosity of 50,000 Pa·sec and Tb represents a temperature at which the toner has a melt viscosity of 5,000 Pa·sec.
摘要:
An image forming method including a new toner fixing method and toner therefor, wherein the method includes two rollers in which a toner image on an image supporting material is fixed by heating at a nipped section of the rollers, wherein one of the rollers which is a fixing roller contacting the toner image includes a metal cylinder having a thickness of not more than 1.0 mm, and the fixing pressure of the two rollers is not more than 1.4×105 Pa, and wherein the toner contains resins including two polyester resins, (A) and (B), and the polyester resin (B) includes discrete domains of the polyester resin (A) which has higher glass transition Tg and higher molecular weight than those of the polyester resin (B) and includes a component insoluble in tetrahydrofuran, and wherein the developed image can be fixed at relative low temperature and in wide temperature range, and the fixed image has excellent image quality and preserving property.