摘要:
A toner comprising a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner has a difference of 30 or less between a maximum value and a minimum value among peak intensities in a range of Molecular weight M±300 where Molecular weight M is a molecular weight selected from a range of from 300 through 5,000 in a molecular weight distribution of tetrahydrofuran (THF)-soluble components in the toner as measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and wherein the peak intensities are defined as relative values assuming a maximum peak value in molecular weights of 20,000 or less is 100, in a molecular weight distribution curve taking an intensity as a vertical axis and a molecular weight as a horizontal axis as measured by GPC.
摘要:
A toner including a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner has a component soluble in a 50% by mass aqueous methanol solution in an amount of 0.10% by mass to 0.60% by mass, and wherein the toner has a flowing-out beginning temperature (Tfb) of 55.0° C. to 100.0° C. as determined by a flowtester method.
摘要:
Toner including binder resin; wherein the toner, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), has glass transition temperature in range of 40° C. through 70° C. at first temperature rising and has no glass transition temperature in range of X° C. through X−20° C. at second temperature rising where X° C. denotes the glass transition temperature at the first temperature rising, the toner has difference of 30 or less between maximum value and minimum value among peak intensities in range of Molecular weight M±300 where Molecular weight M is molecular weight selected from range of 300 through 5,000 in molecular weight distribution of THF-soluble components in the toner as measured by GPC, and the peak intensities are defined as relative values assuming the maximum peak value in molecular weights of 20,000 or less is 100, in molecular weight distribution curve taking intensity as vertical axis and molecular weight as horizontal axis as measured by GPC.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus, including: photoconductor; charging unit; exposing unit; developing unit containing toner; transfer unit; and fixing unit, wherein the toner includes external additive and base particles containing binder resin, colorant, and release agent, the toner has melt viscosity at 100° C. of 500 Pa·s to 8,000 Pa·s and the release agent has melt viscosity at 100° C. of 20 mPa·s to 30 mPa·s, the fixing unit includes fixing member that has roller or belt shape and contacts toner image transferred onto recording medium, and the fixing member includes release layer on surface thereof that is to be brought into contact with the toner image transferred onto the recording medium, and wherein the release layer satisfies the following expressions: 45≦θc1≦10, and 10≦θc1−θc2, where θc1 denotes receding contact angle [°] of the release agent to the release layer and θc2 denotes receding contact angle [°] of the release agent to the toner.
摘要:
To provide an electrophotographic toner, which contains a crystalline resin, a non-crystalline resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a storage elastic modulus of 5.0×104 Pa to 5.0×106 Pa at 80° C., and a storage elastic modulus of 2.0×102 Pa to 2.0×103 Pa at 140° C., and wherein the toner has a ratio (C)/((C)+(A)) of 0.10 or greater, where (C) is an integrated intensity of a diffraction spectrum derived from a crystalline structure, (A) is an integrated intensity of a diffraction spectrum derived from a non-crystalline structure, and the diffraction spectrum is a diffraction spectrum of the toner as measured by an X-ray diffraction spectrometer.