摘要:
Printers are provided having wax management systems. In one aspect, a printer has a print engine provides a toner image on a receiver using a toner having a binder polymer and a wax and a fuser having a contact surface that heats the toner at least to a glass transition temperature for the toner and the wax at least to an incorporated melting temperature to cause at least some of the wax to separate from the toner. A controller allows the toner image to cool to form a fused toner image having a viewing surface and the wax to cool to form first portions of the viewing surface with wax globules and second portions without wax globules. A wiping system wipes the viewing surface to move at least some of the wax from the wax globules onto the second portion when the toner image and wax are cooled.
摘要:
Magnetic toner particles are disclosed. The magnetic toner particles contain at least one polymeric binder and at least one magnetic additive, wherein the surface of the toner particle contains particles of positively chargeable inorganic fine powder particles. The inorganic fine powder particles have a mean volume average particle size of from about 0.5 to about 7 &mgr;m, and a cleaning ratio of from about 0.1 to about 5.0 and a cleaning ratio being the volume fraction of particles between 0 and 1.0 &mgr;m, divided by the volume fraction of particles greater than 1.0 &mgr;m; and the toner particles having on the surface thereof a flowability improving agent having a BET surface area of at least about 30 m2/g. Methods of forming electrostatic images are further disclosed. Also, images formed from the magnetic toner particles are further disclosed and have excellent character void frequency, total void area, and suitable magnetic signal strengths. Developers containing the magnetic toner particles of the present invention are also disclosed.
摘要:
A method for improving durability of aqueous ink deposited on a substrate having multivalent metal salt present at the surface of the substrate is disclosed. The method includes depositing aqueous ink on the surface of the substrate, wherein the aqueous ink is an anionically stabilized pigment ink, drying the substrate to substantially remove the water from the deposited aqueous ink, applying substantially pure water and heat to the dried substrate with deposited aqueous ink, and removing the applied water and heat to return the dried substrate to an ambient temperature and moisture content. The applied substantially pure water and heat are sufficient to cause a significant improvement of the durability of the deposited ink on the substrate.
摘要:
Porous particles comprising a polymer binder and at least one additive distinct from any pore stabilizing compound present in the particle, wherein: the polymer binder comprises a solid compositionally continuous phase having an external particle surface; discrete pores are dispersed within the solid compositionally continuous phase, forming internal pore surfaces; and the at least one additive is present primarily in the discrete pores. The additive may further preferably not be present in the solid compositionally continuous phase, and be substantially absent from the external particle surface. A toner set for forming a color electrophotographic image comprising a plurality of different colored toners, where at least one of the different colored toners comprise such porous particles comprising additives, and in a particular embodiment wherein at least two different colored toners each comprise different pigments present primarily in the internal pores. A process of making such porous particles.
摘要:
The invention relates to a developer for developing electrostatic images. The developer includes magnetic carrier particles at a loading of from 60 to 99 weight percent of the developer. Toner particles are at a loading of 1 to 40 weight percent of the developer. The toner particles include a resin core particle having an outer surface and 0.05 to 5 weight percent a first metal oxide powder is substantially fixed to the outer surface. The toner particles further include 0.05 to 2 weight percent of a second metal oxide powder that is substantially free to transfer between outer surface of the toner particles and an outer surface of the magnetic carrier surface.
摘要:
Printers are provided having wax management systems. In one aspect, a printer has a print engine provides a toner image on a receiver using a toner having a binder polymer and a wax and a fuser having a contact surface that heats the toner at least to a glass transition temperature for the toner and the wax at least to an incorporated melting temperature to cause at least some of the wax to separate from the toner. A controller allows the toner image to cool to form a fused toner image having a viewing surface and the wax to cool to form first portions of the viewing surface with wax globules and second portions without wax globules. A wiping system wipes the viewing surface to move at least some of the wax from the wax globules onto the second portion when the toner image and wax are cooled.
摘要:
An electrophotographic method for producing fused toner images on a receiver medium comprising the steps of: forming an electrostatic image pattern on an image forming member; developing the image pattern on the image forming member with fusible toner particles thereby forming a toner image thereon; transferring the toner image to the receiver medium; and heating the toner image to form a fused toner image on the receiver medium, wherein an amount of a plasticizer is added to the toner particles of the toner image after formation of the toner image on the image forming member and prior to or concurrent with fusing of the transferred toner image on the receiver medium, further wherein the amount of plasticizer added is effective in lowering the Tg of the toner below that of the toner under prevailing ambient conditions in the absence of the added plasticizer. The current invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art because the plasticizer is added immediately before fusing, thus avoiding toner clumping upon storage, as well as eliminating the high cost associated with a custom manufactured receiver that already contains plasticizer.
摘要:
The invention relates to a developer for developing electrostatic images. The developer includes magnetic carrier particles at a loading of from 60 to 99 weight percent of the developer. Toner particles are at a loading of 1 to 40 weight percent of the developer. The toner particles include a resin core particle having an outer surface and 0.05 to 5 weight percent a first metal oxide powder is substantially fixed to the outer surface. The toner particles further include 0.05 to 2 weight percent of a second metal oxide powder that is substantially free to transfer between outer surface of the toner particles and an outer surface of the magnetic carrier surface.
摘要:
A method for improving durability of aqueous ink deposited on a substrate having multivalent metal salt present at the surface of the substrate is disclosed. The method includes depositing aqueous ink on the surface of the substrate, wherein the aqueous ink is an anionically stabilized pigment ink, drying the substrate to substantially remove the water from the deposited aqueous ink, applying substantially pure water and heat to the dried substrate with deposited aqueous ink, and removing the applied water and heat to return the dried substrate to an ambient temperature and moisture content. The applied substantially pure water and heat are sufficient to cause a significant improvement of the durability of the deposited ink on the substrate.
摘要:
A surface decorated particle including a core particle phase having an outer surface; and fine inorganic particles on the outer surface of the core particle phase; wherein the fine inorganic particles have hydrophobic groups covalently bonded primarily on portions of surfaces of the fine inorganic particles positioned away from the core particle phase. Such surface decorated particles are obtainable by a method including stabilizing dispersed hydrophobic phase particles in an aqueous phase with fine inorganic particles having a relatively hydrophilic surface; and treating the stabilized dispersed hydrophobic phase particles with a hydrophobic group containing reactant to form hydrophobic groups covalently bonded to surfaces of the fine inorganic particles. In a particular embodiment, such surface decorated particles are obtainable by a limited coalescence process for preparing binder polymer particles using inorganic stabilizer particles that provide a plurality of surface bonding sites and reacting such sites with a plurality of alkoxy silane moieties that contains pendant hydrophobic groups.