摘要:
A toner including: a plate-shaped pigment containing a metal as a main component; and a binder resin containing polyester resin (A) that is insoluble in THF, wherein: a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of a tetrahydrofuran (THF)-soluble component of the toner as determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is 5,000 or higher but 14,000 or lower; and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of a THF-insoluble component of the toner as determined from a differential scanning colorimetry (DSC) curve at first heating in DSC is −60° C. or higher but 10° C. or lower.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus is provided that includes: first and second electrostatic latent image bearers; first and second electrostatic latent image forming devices; first and second developing devices configured to develop first and second electrostatic latent images with a colored toner and a special-color toner to form a colored toner image and a special-color toner image, respectively; a primary transfer device configured to transfer the colored toner image and the special-color toner image onto an intermediate image bearer in an overlapping manner to form a composite toner image; a secondary transfer device configured to transfer the composite toner image onto a recording medium; and a fixing device configured to fix the composite toner image thereon. The special-color toner comprises plate-like and/or film-like pigments. An absolute difference in volume resistivity between the special-color toner and the colored toner is 0.30 log Ω cm or less.
摘要:
A toner for developing an electrostatic image is provided. The toner comprises a binder resin and a glitter pigment having an average surface roughness Ra of 100 nm or less.
摘要:
Provided is a toner including at least: a non-crystalline polyester resin; and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein when a cross-section of the toner is observed, the crystalline polyester resin has a maximum length of 100 nm or greater but less than 500 nm, and a ratio Dv/Dn of a volume average diameter Dv of the crystalline polyester resin to a number average diameter Dn of the crystalline polyester resin is less than 1.20.
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:
A toner including a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner has a second peak particle diameter in a range of from 1.21 times through 1.31 times as large as a most frequent diameter in a volume basis particle size distribution, and wherein the toner has a particle size distribution (volume average particle diameter/number average particle diameter) in a range of from 1.08 through 1.15.
摘要:
To provide (1) a method for manufacturing a carrier, including: dissolving a coating material composed of a plurality of types of materials in a fluid containing at least one of a supercritical fluid and a subcritical fluid; and lowering the solubility of the solution by controlling at least one of pressure and temperature to form a coating layer on a core surface, or (2) a method for manufacturing a carrier, including: dispersing or dissolving a coating material in a fluid containing at least one of a supercritical fluid and a subcritical fluid; and lowering solubility of the solution by controlling at least one of pressure and temperature to form a coating layer on a core surface, wherein the coating material contains at least a silicone resin, and the silicone resin has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 800 to 5,000.
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 is provided. The toner includes a binder resin and a release agent. The release agent has an average aspect ratio of 31 or more, when the average aspect ratio is determined from cross-sectional images of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope (TEM).
摘要:
Toner contains a binder resin containing one or more kinds of crystalline resin and one or more kinds of non-crystalline resin. The non-crystalline resin located at the surface portion of the toner forms a shell structure of a continuous phase of the non-crystalline resin and the toner has an amount of melting heat of 30 J/g or more in a second temperature rising as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).