摘要:
The object of the present invention is to provide a toner which is excellent in shelf stability for a long term by producing the toner through controlling the dispersion condition of the wax around the toner surface and through improving, not only the off-set resistance of the toner for rendering the fixing properties of the toner advantageous, but also the blocking resistance of the toner, wherein the toner contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax, wherein the amount of the wax is 3% by mass to 21% by mass, and the amount of the wax which is present in the portion of the toner particle which is in the range of from the outermost surface to the depth of 0.3 μm in the toner particle is in a specified range, and at least a part of the wax is present as plural individual wax dispersion particles involved in the toner particles.
摘要:
An image forming method including: forming a toner image on a support using a toner including toner particles; and feeding the support bearing the toner image thereon through a nip between an endless toner heating member and a pressure roller to fix the toner image on the support, wherein the endless toner heating member is rotated while stretched by a fixing roller and a heat roller 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:
A toner including a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein a hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP)-soluble component satisfies the following relationship: 2,000≦Mn≦7,000 and 1.5≦Mn/Mw≦10 wherein Mn represents a number-average molecular weight and Mw represents a weight-average molecular weight.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including a photoconductor, and a developing unit having a developing sleeve for carrying a developer and a developer regulating plate for regulating the amount of the developer carried on the sleeve, wherein the developer is composed of a carrier and a toner, wherein that portion of the toner which has a particle diameter of 2.0-4.0 μm accounts for 30-70% of a total number thereof, and wherein the developer regulating plate is grounded so that when the developing sleeve is applied with a bias voltage, an electric field is formed between the developer regulating plate and the developing sleeve, whereby toner deposits on the developing sleeve are transferred to the developer regulating plate.
摘要:
A two component developer comprising a magnetic toner containing a binder resin and a magnetic particle, and a magnetic carrier containing a magnetic particle, wherein the magnetic toner has an average particle diameter of 4.0 to 10.0 &mgr;m, and contains 5 to 80 No. % of toner particles having particle diameter of 5 &mgr;m or less, and exhibits magnetization of 10 to 25 emu/g under magnetic field of 5 kiloersteds.
摘要:
A two-step process for the production of a toner for developing electrostatic images, including a first pulverizing step wherein a toner composition containing a binder and a coloring agent is pulverized to obtain preliminarily pulverized particles having a weight average particle diameter of 20-100 &mgr;m and containing no more than 50% by weight of particles having roundness of 0.90 or less, and a second pulverizing step wherein the preliminarily pulverized particles are finely pulverized to obtain finely pulverized particles having a weight average particle diameter of 5-13 &mgr;m and containing no more than 30% by weight of particles having roundness of 0.90 or less and no more than 15%, based on the total number of particles of the finely pulverized particles, of particles having a particle diameter of 5 &mgr;m or less.
摘要:
A two-component developer consists of a toner, which contains at least a resin and a colorant and to which an external additive is added, and a carrier. This two-component developer has the toner that has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 3,000 or less and contains particles having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less at 40 number % or more, and also has the carrier that satisfies general formula (1) as follows: 3,000,000≦&sgr;1000×Dc3≦20,000,000 (1) where &sgr;1000 represents a magnetization (emu/g) of a carrier at 1,000 oersted, and Dc represents volume average particle diameter (&mgr;m) of the carrier.
摘要:
A color toner includes a binder resin composition comprising a binder resin A with a softening point in the range of 85.degree. to 110.degree. C., and a binder resin B with a softening point in the range of 115.degree. to 135.degree. C., with the binder resin A and the binder resin B being compatible with each other; a coloring agent; and a wax with a melting point in the range of 65.degree. to 90.degree. C., which is not compatible with the binder resin composition and dispersed in the binder resin composition.
摘要:
A triboelectric charge application member for imparting or applying electrostatic charge to a toner through the triboelectric charging thereof for developing electrostatic images with the charge toner to visible toner images. The triboelectric charge application member includes an overcoat layer comprising as the main component a polymer which comprises a fluoro-olefin compound and an unsaturated silicon compound as the monomer units of the polymer. The triboelectric charge application member may be carrier particles having the above overcoat layer and a toner transportation member having the overcoat layer, depending upon its application.
摘要:
A toner including a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein a hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP)-soluble component satisfies the following relationship: 2,000 ≦Mn ≦7,000 and 1.5 ≦Mn/Mw ≦10 wherein Mn represents a number-average molecular weight and Mw represents a weight-average molecular weight.