Abstract: A toner comprising a compound represented by the following formula: R1O(R2O)nH where R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 10 to 22 carbon atoms or a distyrene-substituted phenyl group; R2 is an alkylene group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 1 to 15.

Abstract: All objective is to provide an image forming method by which sufficient fixing strength can be obtained at a low temperature of 120° C., excellent print images with no belt-like like or streak image defect can be obtained, and no document offsetting is generated even though the superimposed print images are stored. Disclosed is an image forming method comprising the step of fixing a toner image formed with a toner comprising a releasing agent on a transfer material employing a contact-heating fixing device comprising a heating roller and a belt-shaped pressure body, wherein the heating roller is placed on the upper side of the transfer material, the releasing agent comprises the 1st releasing agent component and the 2nd releasing agent component, and the 1st releasing agent component has a content of 40-98% by weight, based on the total weight of the 1st and 2nd releasing agent components.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner has softening point Tsp of from 90° C. to 110° C., and the toner satisfies the relation of 0.02?(Sw/S)×100?10, Sw being an area of a wax domain having largest diameter among wax domains at a cross section of the toner particle, and S being entire area of the cross section of the toner particle.

Abstract: A toner for an electrophotography comprising a resin and a colorant is disclosed. The toner is formed by a process including a step of aggregating resin particles, and the toner comprises a volatile ketone compound in an amount of 4-60 ppm and carnauba wax in toner particles.

Abstract: An eletrophotographic toner comprising toner particles each containing a colorant and a resin, wherein the resin in the toner particle satisfies the following Formulas (1) and (2): Formula (1) 20?Tg?40, Formula (2) 15?(Ta?Tg)?40, wherein Tg (° C.) is a glass transition point of the resin; and Ta (° C.) is a 50% aggregation temperature of the resin.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The arithmetic average of shape coefficient SF-1 of the toner particles calculated by Equation 1 is from 125 to 170 and a ratio of that to an arithmetic average of the shape coefficient SF-2 of the toner particles calculated by Equation 2, SF-1/SF-2, is from 1.10 to 1.52 and the ratio of the toner particles having a circle corresponding diameter measured by a flow particle image analyzer of from not less than 0.60 to less than 1.00 ?m is not more than 5.0% in number. The image forming methods employing the toner are also disclosed.

Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed, comprising forming a toner image, transferring the toner image onto a recording medium and fixing the transferred toner image in a fixing device comprising a heating roller, an endless belt pressed into contact with the heating roller, a pressing member pressing the inner side of the endless belt and an end pressing member to locally elastically deform the heating roller and provided downstream from the pressing member, wherein the toner comprises toner particles comprising a core containing a resin, a colorant and a releasing agent and a shell on, and the toner particles exhibiting an average of eight-point mean thickness of the shell of 100 to 300 nm and meeting a requirement of an average of Hmax/Hmin being less than 1.50, wherein Hmax is a maximum thickness of the shell and Hmin is a minimum thickness of the shell.

Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development includes a coloring agent and a resin wherein the toner is formed by a polymerization method and a content of aromatic amine contained in the toner is 50 ppm or less, and a volume average particle size of the toner is 3 to 8 ?m; and an image forming method employs the same toner.

Abstract: An image forming method for forming a full color toner image by overlaying four color electrostatic image developing toners of black, yellow, magenta and cyan, wherein at least one of the four color electrostatic image developing toners is a toner containing a large diameter external additive in a larger amount and at least one is a toner containing the large diameter external additive in a smaller amount, in which the primary particle diameter of the large diameter external additive is from 150 nm to 2,000 nm, the content of the large diameter external additive in the toner containing the large diameter external additive in larger amount is from 0.06% by weight to 4.0% by weight and the content of the large diameter external additive in the toner containing the large diameter external additive in the smaller amount is not more than 0.05% by weight.

Abstract: An image forming method comprises: fixing an image formed by a toner on a record sheet in a nip member formed by a pressurizing member which is compressibly contacted against a heating fixing rotor having an elastic body layer formed on an endless periphery surface capable of orbitally moving and which creates locally a large distortion occurred in the elastic body layer in vicinity of outlet thereof, wherein the toner includes at least two metal salts having different valence and has a relationship given by the Formula (1). 2.0?a?0.1 1.0?b?0.01 7.5?a/b?1.1 ??Formula (1) wherein a (mass %) is defined as a content of a metal salt which is contained at a highest content in total toner mass and b (mass %) is defined as a content of a metal salt which is contained at a second-highest content in the total toner mass, and mass values of a and b represent anhydride reduced values.

Abstract: The toner for developing an electrostatic image, includes a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant. The colorant has Feret's average horizontal diameter from 10 nm to 500 nm, and 50 number % or more of colorant has a Feret's horizontal diameter of from 2 nm to 300 nm.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner having: a toner particle having a colorant and a resin; and a surfactant having two or more anionic groups within one molecule in an amount of 10 ppm to 10,000 ppm.

Abstract: Toner for electrostatic latent image development includes at least a resin, a coloring agent and a crystalline compound, wherein the toner particle has sea-island structure and the crystalline compound is n-paraffin of particular structure.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner particles containing a binder resin containing a polyester resin or a polyol resin and a colorant, and the toner particles contain aluminum in an amount of 0.007 to 0.140% by weight, chlorine in an amount of 0.002 to 0.412% by weight, and the toner particles have an average circular degree of 0.94 to 0.99 and an average circle equivalent diameter of from 2.6 to 7.4 ?m.

Abstract: In a toner for developing electrostatic latent images, average circularity is 0.94–0.98, the average value of the equivalent circular diameter is 2.6–7.4 ?m and the gradient of the circularity to the equivalent circular diameter is from ?0.005 to ?0.001, and an image forming method using the same.

Abstract: A toner for developing a static latent image is disclosed.

Abstract: An image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of forming a latent image on a latent image carrying member, developing the latent image by a developer containing a toner, transferring the toner image onto an intermediate transfer member, transferring the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer member onto a image forming support, and fixing the toner image formed on the image forming support, wherein the toner contains a resin and a colorant, and the toner is constituted by toner particles having a variation coefficient of the shape coefficient of not more than 16% and a number variation coefficient of the particle size distribution of not more than 27%.

Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development, in which the image quality is fine, toner blister would not occur, and furthermore, the image quality which can fulfill customer's satisfaction can be obtained regardless of the temperature humidity environment in the image forming. The toner for electrostatic latent image development is made by agglomeration of resin particles and colorant particles in an aqueous medium. The acid value of the toner is less than 20 mgKOH/g, and the hydroxyl value of the toner is 7 to 57 mgKOH/g.

Abstract: A toner for developing a static latent image is disclosed. The toner has a number based particle diameter distribution curve in which peak or maximum value is within the range of from 1.0 to 2.0 ?m, and ratio of particles having particle diameter of from 1.0 to 2.0 ?m is from 0.1 to 5.0% and ratio of particle having a diameter of at least 6.35 ?m is 5.0%.

Abstract: A toner comprising a compound represented by the following formula: R1O(R2O)nH where R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 10 to 22 carbon atoms or a distyrene-substituted phenyl group; R2 is an alkylene group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 1 to 15.