Abstract: A developer to be used in an image forming apparatus includes a toner containing a core toner including a colorant, a binder resin, a release agent and a charge controlling agent containing Al and Mg, a first inorganic oxide externally added to the core toner, having a primary particle diameter of from 51 to 200 nm in an amount of from 0.2 to 5.0 wt % based on the core toner, and a second inorganic oxide externally added to the core toner, having a primary particle diameter of from 8 to 50 nm in an amount of from 0.2 to 4.0 wt % based on the core toner, and a carrier having a volume resistivity under an electric field of 1000 V/mm of from 1×10+5 to 1×10+12 ?cm.

Abstract: A developer to be used in an image forming apparatus has a carrier and a toner containing a colorant, a binder resin, a release agent, a charge controlling agent containing Al and Mg, and a conductive inorganic oxide having an intrinsic resistivity of from 1.0×103? to 1.0×1010? in an amount of from 0.2 to 2.0 wt % based on a core toner.

Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an image containing the steps of: (a) forming an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image carrier; and (b) developing the electrostatic latent image by a two component developer comprising a toner and a carrier, wherein the two component developer is continually replenished in the developing step. (b); and the toner includes: colored particles.; and external additive particles comprising a complex oxide incorporating silicon atoms and at least one of titanium atoms and aluminum atoms, and a surface existing ratio of the silicon atoms (R2) in a surface of the external additive particles being larger than an average existing ratio of the silicon atoms (R1) in an entirety of the external additive particles.

Abstract: Single component toners having a core with a first latex having a specific glass transition temperature and molecular weight, further having a shell surrounding the core with a second latex having a specific glass transition temperature and molecular weight, and additives added thereto, and processes for producing the same. In embodiments, the toner is a non-magnetic single component toner produced by emulsion aggregation methods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrostatic image development, obtainable by a process including the steps of: (I) melt-kneading a raw material mixture containing a resin binder, a releasing agent, and a colorant, cooling the melt-kneaded mixture, and pulverizing the cooled mixture; and (II) further pulverizing a pulverized product obtained in the step (I) in the presence of an external additive containing a negatively chargeable inorganic oxide subjected to hydrophobic treatment and a positively chargeable inorganic oxide subjected to hydrophobic treatment, and classifying the pulverized product; and a process for preparing the toner.

Abstract: A process for preparing a toner comprising the steps of (1) pulverizing a pulverized product of a composition comprising a resin binder and a colorant with a jet type pulverizer in the presence of fine inorganic oxide particles, to give an upper limit cut-off classification powder; and (2) classifying the upper limit cut-off classification powder with a classifier, the classifier comprising a classifying rotor comprising a driving shaft arranged in one casing as a central shaft thereof in a vertical direction, and a stationary spiral guiding vane arranged to share the same central shaft as the classifying rotor, wherein the stationary spiral guiding vane is arranged in a classification zone on an outer circumference of the classifying rotor with a given spacing to the outer circumference of the classifying rotor.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a toner containing toner particles and inorganic fine particles wherein the inorganic fine particles are externally added to the toner particles which contain a binder resin and a colorant and at least one type of the inorganic fine particles is a compound oxide having a relative permittivity measured at 1 MHz of 2 to 10 and a volume resistivity of 1011?·cm or more and an image forming method using the toner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic mono-component toner composition with positive charge comprising i) a magnetic toner particle containing a charge control agent with positive charge; ii) a hydrophobic silica with negative charge; iii) a fluorinated organic fine powder; and iv) a metal oxide fine powder containing 20 to 80 wt % of tin oxide. The toner has an advantageous in the extended life of the drum, reduction of the background contamination, and improvement of long-term reliability, and thus can be used effectively for image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images which contains an external additive A containing an irregular-shaped metal oxide and having an average value of the feret's horizontal diameter of from 20 nm to 1370 nm, and an external additive B containing a hydrophobic particle having an average value of the feret's horizontal diameter of from 10 nm to 45 nm.

Abstract: To provide an image forming method including conveying a toner by means of a toner supply device that supplies the toner from inside a toner housing container into a developer housing section of a developing device with the use of a screw pump, and forming an image on a recording medium by developing a latent image on a latent image bearing member to form a toner image with the use of a developer and by transferring the toner image to the recording medium by means of a transfer device, wherein the toner is formed by adding small particle size silica to toner base particles, and wherein when A represents the average degree of circularity of the toner, and B, expressed as percent by mass, represents the amount of the small particle size silica relative to the mass of the toner base particles, the expression ?18A+17.92?B??34A+33.96 is satisfied.

Abstract: A toner is provided which can stably provide a favorable density stability, line reproducibility and dot reproducibility even in high-speed copying machines, printers and the like which form high resolution latent images over a long period regardless of environmental conditions, and can provide the image quality adaptable to embedded pattern printing, QR code printing and the like. The present invention is characterized in that the toner which includes toner particles including at least a binder resin and a colorant, and a fine silica powder, has a volume median diameter (D50) of not less than 0.70 ?m and not more than 3.00 ?m, and a total pore volume of not more than 0.200 cm3/g, measured in the range of the pore diameter from not less than 1.7 nm and not more than 300.0 nm.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic charge image developing toner containing external additives possessing at least amorphous silica and a crystallized metal oxide selected from titanium oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, or calcium oxide, wherein the amorphous silica is placed as a nucleus, and the crystallized metal oxide is present on the silica surface.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image comprising a resin, a colorant, and a particle having domain-matrix structure and the particle having two or more kinds of metal elements.

Abstract: A toner for one-component developer, including a mother toner including a binder resin including a polyester resin as a main component, a colorant and a release agent; and an external additive in an amount of from 2.5 to 5.0 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the mother toner, wherein the toner includes a hexane-extracted volume of from 10 to 40 mg/g and has a cohesion of from 50 to 90%.

Abstract: Provided are a latex process and a toner process, both of which include the preparation of a latex having weight average molecular weight of from about 12×103 to about 24×103. The latex is manufactured under monomer-starved polymerization condition such as monomer feeding rate equal to or less than 0.516% per minute by weight of the monomer(s) to be fed. The toners prepared according to the present disclosure have gained improved properties such as gloss, fusing performance, crease performance, stripping performance, document offset, vinyl offset, and parent charging etc.

Abstract: Provided is a developing toner for electrostatic latent images capable of coping with the size reduction of an image forming apparatus and decrease of the consumption amount, not shortening the working life of a photoreceptor, less causing paper jam, background fogging, etc., excellent in various characteristics required for the toner, and capable of forming images of good picture quality. The developing toner being used when images are formed to a recording material in an image forming apparatus comprising an image forming station, a recording material feeding station, an image fixing station and a controlling station, the developing toner for electrostatic latent images containing hydrophobic fluidizing particles deposited to the surface of coloring resin particles comprising a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a polyalkylene, a polyolefin dispersant and a non-oxidized polyethylene resin, and an inorganic pigment, and having time constant ? of from 100 to 350 msec.

Abstract: The present invention relates to toner compositions containing extra particulate additives. The additives may include a mixture of silica particles having differing BET surface areas and may include an acicular inorganic oxide. The control of such additives may be relied upon to control toner performance with respect to functional performance considerations such as filming and/or overall print quality.

Abstract: A toner for development of an electrostatic image includes at least a crystalline polyester resin and a colorant. The toner shows a dielectric loss index ?? of 0.1 or less at 0.1 Hz and 500 V at 30° C. and 90% RH.

Abstract: An emissive toner composition for producing an emissive image component of an image indicia on a substrate. The emissive toner composition includes a photoluminescent agent, a charge control agent, and one or more additives, each selected and present in an amount such that when the toner composition is printed to produce an image component on a substrate, the toner composition has stable spectral characteristics. In one embodiment, the emission spectra of the image component printed on the substrate, for irradiation with an excitation energy includes only dominant emission peaks corresponding to one or more emission peaks of the photoluminescent agent. In another embodiment, the image component has a photoluminescent toner stability factor of about greater than or equal to 25.

Abstract: A toner capable of ensuring cleanness and the amount of specific charge for extended periods of time and having excellent charge stability and fixing property, a two-component developer, a developing device and an image forming apparatus are provided. A toner includes toner particles containing at least a binding resin and a coloring agent, and fine silicon-containing oxide particles having an average primary particle size of not smaller than 70 nm but not larger than 150 nm and containing water in an amount of not larger than 2.0% by weight, the fine silicon-containing oxide particles being externally added to the toner particles.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic charge image developing toner containing external additives comprising at least amorphous silica and a crystallized metal oxide selected from titanium oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, or calcium oxide, wherein the amorphous silica is present on the crystallized metal.

Abstract: A toner comprising a small-particle diameter external additive having a number average particle diameter of 7 to 20 nm, a large-particle diameter external additive having a number average particle diameter of 40 to 80 nm and a toner particle having a volume average particle diameter of 4 to 7 ?m, wherein the large-particle diameter external additive is stuck to the surface of the toner particles in a semi-embedded state and has a rate of liberation of 0.1% by weight or less from the surface of the toner particle.

Abstract: A developer includes a carrier and a toner, wherein the toner contains toner particles of at least one binder, at least one colorant, and external additives, wherein the developer has a trimmer clogging value in relation to toner triboelectric charge and toner cohesion expressed according to the equation (?0.80+0.039×(% toner cohesion)+0.026×(toner triboelectric charge) (?C/g)) of less than or equal to about 3.2.

Abstract: A developer for development of electrostatic images, comprising colored particles containing a binder resin, a colorant and a parting agent, and an external additive, wherein the developer has properties that a work function is at least 5.70 eV; when excitation energy (eV) in the measurement of the work function is plotted on an axis of abscissa, and a normalized photoelectron yield represented by the 0.5th power of a photoelectron yield per unit photon is plotted on an axis of ordinate, a gradient of the normalized photoelectron yield to the excitation energy is at least 15/eV; and an extraction quantity with methanol is 5.0% by weight or less, and a production process thereof.

Abstract: The toner includes emulsion aggregation toner particles of a binder including a non-crosslinked styrene acrylate polymer, at least one colorant, at least one wax, and aluminized silica, wherein an amount of aluminum metal in the toner particles is from about 50 ppm to about 600 ppm. Such toner is able to provide a high level of gloss while maintaining a low minimum fixing temperature. The aluminized silica acts as a coagulant during the emulsion aggregation formation process of the toner.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a toner that can sustain favorable transferability and cleaning ability for prolonged periods; prevent photoconductor filming; exhibit no variation in image nonuniformity or external additive immersion induced by developer agitation at the time of use; excels in stability with flowability and charge stability over prolonged periods. Therefore, provided is the toner of which the quantity of aggregate of residual external additives found on the sieve of 635-mesh and 452 cm2 of mesh area, after 0.2 g of the toner on the sieve is blasted with air at a blow pressure of 0.2 MPa from 160 mm above the sieve while being air-suctioned at a suction force of 5 mmHg, and then air-suctioned at a suction force of 20 mmHg, is 4,500 or less and 5 or more.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and process cartridge which uses a two-component developer comprising a toner and a carrier. By using toner and carrier having a small-particle size, deterioration of the toner fluidity over time can be avoided, and further by maintaining stable toner charge even in a low-humidity environment, stable high-quality image formation can be achieved. The occurrence of adherence of carrier to the solid portions of the toner image is reduced in addition to the occurrence of adherence of carrier to the edge portions, and image abnormalities, toner scattering and the like are prevented.

Abstract: Disclosed is a toner for a developer comprising cylindrical toner particles formed of a toner composition containing at least a binder resin and a releasant as toner components, and an external additive, wherein the cylindrical toner particles have an average circularity of 0.880 or more and 0.930 or less.

Abstract: A process for preparing a toner including the steps of (I) melt-kneading a raw material mixture containing a resin binder and a colorant; (II) cooling the melt-kneaded mixture obtained in the step (I) and pulverizing the cooled mixture to give a pulverized product having a volume-median particle size (D50v) of from 10 to 1000 ?m; (III) pulverizing the pulverized product obtained in the step (II) in the presence of an external additive having an average particle size of from 8 to 50 nm; and (IV) classifying the pulverized product obtained in the step (III), wherein the resulting toner has a volume-median particle size (D50v) of from 3.5 to 8 ?m, and the total amount of m kind(s) of external additive(s) in the step (III) satisfies a specified formula. The toner can be used, for instance, for the development of a latent image formed in electrophotography, electrostatic recording method, electrostatic printing method or the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrophotographic toner comprising toner particles (10), which contain a matrix material (11), at least part of said toner particles (10) having a first glass flow component (13) with a first melting temperature. The aim of the invention is to create translucent surfaces on glass substrates in a simple manner. To achieve this at least part of the toner particles has an additional second glass flow component, whose melting temperature is greater than the first glass flow component.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic developing agent including: toner particles including a binder resin, a colorant, and a charge control agent; and an external additive added to the surface of the toner particles, wherein the external additive includes at least one inorganic particulate component and at least two types of strontium titanate particulate component having different mean primary particle diameters. Typically, the inorganic particulate component is not strontium titanate. Also, an electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the electrophotographic developing agent is provided. The strontium titanate particulate component having different mean primary particle diameters are used as an external additive to maintain uniform charging characteristics and to prevent fog in a non-image area, thereby obtaining good image quality.

Abstract: An external additives for electrophtographic toner comprising finely divided oxide particulate including a silicon compound and a compound for doping said oxide particulate, wherein particle diameter of the primary particle of said finely divided oxide particulate is in the range of 30 nm to 150 nm, and the primary particle of said finely divided oxide particles is substantially spherical shape having the roundness in the range of 0.95 to 0.996, is provided. And this external additives is capable of evading from the embedding of external additives into toner even if after the toner is held in the storage under the condition of high temperature and high humidity, thereby the additives is capable of showing sufficient functions as fluidizing agent and charge supplement agent, and is capable of inhibiting an abnormal charge elevation even after being stored under the low temperature and low humidity.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a toner for electrostatic development containing core-shell type toner particles, which can decrease the amount of a toner fused onto a developing roller and a regulating blade of a developing device in a development process. An aspect of the present invention pertains to a toner comprising core-shell type toner particles and an external additive, wherein the core-shell type toner particle has a core particle and a shell layer coating the core particle, the core particle contains a binder resin, a releasant and a coloring material, the shell layer has at least one small depressed portion on the surface there of, and the external additive is dominantly distributed in the one or more small depressed portion(s).

Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images in a single component development (SCD) system free of carrier and including emulsion aggregation toner particles of a styrene acrylate polymer binder, at least one release agent and at least one colorant, wherein the toner particles have a volume average particle size of from about 5 ?m to about 10 ?m, an average circularity of about 0.95 to about 0.99, a volume and number geometric standard deviation (GSDv and n) of from about 1.10 to about 1.30, and an onset glass transition temperature of from about 45° C. to about 65° C., is ideally suited for forming an image using a single component image forming device.

Abstract: Hydrophobic inorganic fine particles characterized by being a mixture of at least small-particle-diameter inorganic fine particles having an average primary particle diameter of 5 to 25 nm and having a maximum peak particle diameter of 20 nm or less and large-particle-diameter inorganic fine particles having an average primary particle diameter which is 1.5 to 100 times the average primary particle diameter of the small-particle-diameter inorganic fine particles; the mixture being a mixture having been treated in the same treating tank to subject both the small-particle-diameter inorganic fine particles and large-particle-diameter inorganic fine particles simultaneously to hydrophobic treatment.

Abstract: A toner composition for an electrophotography image forming apparatus includes toner particles and external additives. The toner particles include a colorant, a charge control agent and a release agent with binder resins. The external additives include a first silica having an opposite polarity to the toner particles, a second silica having the same polarity as the toner particles, a sodium titanate having the same polarity as the toner particles, and an aluminum oxide having the same polarity as the toner particles.

Abstract: A toner composition includes toner particles containing a colorant, a binder, a charge control agent, a releasing agent, and an external additive containing silica, silicon carbide, magnesium stearate, and polyvinylidene fluoride. The toner composition of the present invention has a stable image density and no fogging/filming so that improved quality printing images may be provided.

Abstract: A non-magnetic one-component electrophotographic developing agent is provided having improved properties. The electrophotographic developing agent includes parent toner particles comprising a binder resin, a releasing agent, a colorant, and a charge control agent, and an external additive which is added to a surface of the parent toner particles, wherein the binder resin comprises a high viscosity polyester resin having a weight average molecular weight of about 90,000-140,000 and a gel content of less than about 5% and a low viscosity polyester resin having a weight average molecular weight of about 52,000-65,000 and a gel content of less than about 2%. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electrophotographic developing agent having improved image gloss and fusing property, while ensuring durability may be prepared by using a blended combination of a high viscosity polyester resin and a low viscosity polyester resin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrostatic image development, obtainable by a process including the steps of (I) melt-kneading a raw material mixture comprising a resin binder, a releasing agent, and a colorant; cooling the melt-kneaded mixture; and pulverizing the cooled mixture; and (II) further pulverizing a pulverized product obtained in the step (I) in the presence of an external additive; and classifying the pulverized product, wherein the releasing agent in the step (I) contains a wax having a melting point of from 65° to 100° C., and wherein the external additive in the step (II) contains specified inorganic oxides. The toner of the present invention can be suitably used, for instance, for the development of a latent image formed in electrophotography, electrostatic recording method, electrostatic printing method or the like.

Abstract: A toner is provided which can stably provide a favorable density stability, line reproducibility and dot reproducibility even in high-speed copying machines, printers and the like which form high resolution latent images over a long period regardless of environmental conditions, and can provide the image quality adaptable to embedded pattern printing, QR code printing and the like. The present invention is characterized in that the toner which includes toner particles including at least a binder resin and a colorant, and a fine silica powder, has a volume median diameter (D50) of not less than 0.70 ?m and not more than 3.00 ?m, and a total pore volume of not more than 0.200 cm3/g, measured in the range of the pore diameter from not less than 1.7 nm and not more than 300.0 nm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-magnetic mono-component toner composition, which comprises a) a non-magnetic toner particle comprising a binding resin comprising a binder resin and a copolymer of a cyclic olefin and an acyclic olefin polymerized in the presence of a metallocene catalyst and a cocatalyst, a colorant, and a charge-control agent; b) fine powder of an organic compound containing fluorine that is added to the surface of the non-magnetic toner particle; and c) hydrophobic silica having a specific surface area of 100 to 240 m2/g. The toner composition of the present invention has superior transfer efficiency and charging properties and thus can obtain a stable image, does not show deteriorated image density, and does not generate background contamination of non-image areas and off-set due to deterioration of fixing properties, even if copying or printing is conducted therewith for a long time use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-magnetic monocomponent color toner composition and a method for preparing the same, and more particularly to a non-magnetic monocomponent color toner composition having a narrow charge distribution, good charging characteristics, good environmental independence, superior image characteristics, high transfer efficiency and long-term stability caused by significantly improved charge maintenance capability, and a method for preparing the same. The non-magnetic monocomponent color toner composition of the present invention is prepared by coating organic particles having an average particle size of 0.3 to 2.0 ?m, organic particles having an average particle size of 0.05 to 0.25 ?m, and silica on toner mother particles.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a toner enabling excellent transferring properties, cleanability, and fixability and forming a high-precision image without substantially degraded image quality even after printed on a number of sheets of paper. The invention also provides the toner-production method, an image forming apparatus, an image forming method, and a process cartridge. To this end, the present invention provides a toner which comprises toner-base particles containing a binder resin and a filler, and inorganic fine particles, in which the filler is included in a filler-layer in the vicinity of surfaces of the toner-base particles, the number average particle diameter of the primary particles of the inorganic fine particles is 90 nm to 300 nm, and the average circularity of the toner is 0.95.

Abstract: The invention provides a developer having at least a toner, an aeration ratio (AR) of the developer measured by a powder rheometer being in a range of about 5.0 to about 10.0. It is preferable that the developer further contains an external additive of silica particles having a small diameter. The invention further provides a process cartridge having at least: a photoreceptor; and a developing device that comprises plura developer storage portions and that makes visible a latent image formed on the photoreceptor by using the developer. The invention further provides an image forming apparatus having at least the process cartridge.

Abstract: A toner composition includes a binder, a colorant, and a surface additive package including a polydimethylsiloxane surface treated silica, a surface treated titania, and calcium sterate. The toner composition provides improved triboelectric charging properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrostatic image development, obtainable by a process including the steps of (I) melt-kneading a raw material mixture containing a resin binder, a releasing agent, and a colorant; cooling the melt-kneaded mixture; and pulverizing the cooled mixture; and (II) further pulverizing a pulverized product obtained in the step (I) in the presence of an external additive containing at least two kinds of inorganic oxides subjected to hydrophobic treatment, having different average particle sizes from each other; and classifying the pulverized product, wherein the inorganic oxides subjected to hydrophobic treatment in the step (II) have an average particle size of 20 nm or less, and a difference in average particle size of 3 to 10 nm; and a process for preparing the toner.

Abstract: A toner having a core with at least one resin and at least one colorant, and having on a surface thereof, an additive package including fluorinated polymer particles, and a method of forming toner particles having surface particles attached thereto, wherein the surface particles include fluorinated polymer particles, and the method includes aggregating a material with at least one resin and at least one colorant to produce toner particles, following aggregation, forming a mixture of the surface particles and the toner particles, and subjecting the mixture to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the toner particles to coalesce the toner particles, whereby the surface particles become at least partially embedded within the surface of the toner particles.

Abstract: A toner for an image-forming apparatus and method which apparatus has a cleaning means with a cleaning blade to remove a residual toner remaining on a surface of a photoconductive member after transfer; the toner being a mixture of a colored polymer particle and an external additive. The colored polymer particle has an average circle degree in the range of 0.95-0.995 and a volume average particle diameter in the range of 3-8 ?m. The toner has an absolute value of charge amount in the range of 20-70 ?C/g in a toner layer formed on a developing roll when the toner is used with the image-forming apparatus.

Abstract: Single component toners having a core with a first latex having a specific glass transition temperature and molecular weight, further having a shell surrounding the core with a second latex having a specific glass transition temperature and molecular weight, and additives added thereto, and processes for producing the same. In embodiments, the toner is a non-magnetic single component toner produced by emulsion aggregation methods.

Abstract: A method of producing a custom color particulate toner for use in a two-component developer by mixing two or more component color toners. The component color toners are each surface treated with a blend of two or more types of silica particles, which differ in the functional groups appended to them. The silica blend for each component color toner is chosen so that, when the component color toners are mixed together to form the custom color mixture, they will all tribocharge to the same charge-to-mass ratio when mixed with a carrier to form a developer.