Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner is disclosed. The toner has a domain-matrix structure; the average of the horizontal FERE diameter of the part corresponding to said domain is from 200 to 900 nm; and the variation coefficient of said horizontal FERE diameter is 40 percent or less.

Abstract: A toner is formed of toner particles each comprising a binder resin and iron oxide particles dispersed therein. The toner particles are characterized by uniform but non-surface-exposed dispersion of the iron oxide particles within the toner particles as represented by (i) a carbon content (A) and an iron content (B) giving a ratio B/A<0.001 at surfaces of the toner particles as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, (ii) an average circularity of at least 0.970, and (iii) at least 50% by number of toner particles satisfying D/C≦0.02, wherein C denotes a projection area-equivalent circular diameter of each toner particle and D denotes a minimum distance of iron oxide particles from a surface of the toner particle, based on a sectional view of the toner particle as observed through a transmission electron microscope (TEM).

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide the toner for color electrophotographic system, wherein said toner ensures a sufficient offset resistance without oil being supplied, and meets requirements for color development, transparency and durability to withstand commercial use.

Abstract: A non-magnetic mono-component toner of the present invention comprises, at least, a plurality of mother particles and a plurality of CCA particles adhering to the mother particles. The non-magnetic mono-component toner satisfies a×d<2.5, wherein “a” is the inclination of an approximation straight line of the CCA particles adhering to the mother particles, obtained by approximating distribution of particle diameter of the CCA particles relative to the particle diameter of the mother particles by the least-square method, and “d” (&mgr;m) is the volume-based mean particle diameter of the toner. Therefore, the charge on one particle of the non-magnetic mono-component toner can be efficiently reduced, thereby allowing lower developing voltage and achieving reduction in developing hysteresis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image comprising a colorant, a binder resin having a number-average molecular weight of 2000 to 5000 and a ratio of weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight of 5 to 30, a polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 3000 and a ratio of weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight of 2.0 or less, and a release agent.

Abstract: An image formation process which forms a toner image by the nonmagnetic one-component developing system by bringing an electrically conducting brush impressed with a voltage into contact with a photosensitive material to effect the uniform charging, and forming an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive material by the exposure to the image-bearing light, wherein the toner that is used as a circularity of from 0.92 to 0.98. The nonmagnetic one-component developing system minimizes irregular electric charging that stems from the use of the electrically conducting brush. This action is obtained even in full-color developing system which effects development many times.

Abstract: An electrophotographic color toner containing at least a coloring agent, a binder resin, and light-color or colorless fine particles, wherein toner particles containing particles having particle sizes of at least 1.0 &mgr;m as said fine particles are not more than half of the total toner particles. The electrophotographic color toner has a broad fixable temperature region of the toner and does not cause an image deterioration by preventing the occurrence of the penetration phenomenon into a paper while keeping a high image quality and high coloring even by using paper other than a paper for color copy without deteriorating various characteristics of a toner of prior art.

Abstract: A flash fixing toner includes a binder resin, a coloring agent, a charge control agent, a wax, and an infrared ray absorbing agent. The infrared ray absorbing agent is held within the wax, so as to suppress contact between the infrared ray absorbing agent and the charge control agent.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image formation method using electrophotography, comprising the steps of supplying a developer by a developing device (17) onto a photosensitive drum (11) in rotation to form a toner image thereon, transferring the formed toner image onto a transfer paper to form an image on the transfer paper, and removing untransferred developer by use of a cleaning blade (21), wherein an OPC photosensitive drum (11) is used for the photosensitive drum and includes a photosensitive layer (27) being formed on an electrically conductive base (25) and having an initial thickness which is a value within a range of 20 to 50 &mgr;m, and wherein the amount X of reduction in the thickness of the photosensitive layer (27) in the OPC photosensitive drum (11) satisfies the following expression (1) 0.5 &mgr;m<30X/R<1.

Abstract: A toner including mother toner particles including at least two resins A and B and a wax each of which is incompatible with the others; and an external additive including at least one of a particulate inorganic material and a particulate resin, wherein the resins and wax form a sea-island structure in which the resin B is present like islands in a sea of the resin A and the wax is substantially included in the resin B while dispersed therein, and wherein the resin A does not include a component insoluble in tetrahydrofuran and has a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 90,000.

Abstract: A toner is comprised of toner particles composed of at least a binder resin and a clorant, wherein the toner particles each have a coating layer formed on their surfaces in a state of particulate matters being stuck to one another. The particulate matters contains at least a silicon compound.

Abstract: A toner is comprised of a binder resin, a colorant and a wax. The binder resin has a polycarbonate resin in an amount of from 0.1% by weight to 50.0% by weight and a resin other than the polycarbonate resin in an amount of from 50.0% by weight to 99.9% by weight, based on the weight of the binder resin. In molecular weight distribution as measured by gel permeation chromatography of tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter, the toner contains in an amount of 15.0% by weight or less based on the weight of the toner a component which has in its structure a repeating unit of the polycarbonate resin and is contained in components having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a novel toner satisfying a high resolution, a low temperature fixability and a high offset resistance at a low cost. A novel toner for the development of an electrostatic image is provided comprising an agglomerate of particles containing at least primary polymer particles, wherein said primary polymer particles substantially comprise a wax encapsulated therein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a novel toner satisfying a high resolution, a low temperature fixability and a high offset resistance at a low cost. A novel toner for the development of an electrostatic image is provided comprising an agglomerate of particles containing at least primary polymer particles, wherein said primary polymer particles substantially comprise a wax encapsulated therein.

Abstract: A toner suitable for use in electrophotography, etc., is composed of toner particles each containing a binder resin, a colorant and a wax component. Each toner particle has such a microtexture as to provide a cross section as observed through a transmission electron microscope (TEM) exhibiting a matrix of the binder resin, a particle of the wax enclosed with the matrix; and the binder resin dispersed in a particulate form in the wax particle, and the toner particles have a residual monomer content of at most 500 ppm by weight of the toner particles. The colorant may also be dispersed in the wax particle enclosed within the matrix of the binder resin.

Abstract: An electrophotographic toner including at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin includes one or more components soluble in tetrahydrofuran, and wherein the one or more components has a molecular weight distribution such that at least one peak is present between 1,000 and 10,000, and the peak has a half width not greater than 15,000 when the molecular weight is measured by a gel permeation chromatography (GPC) method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a toner comprising a binding resin, a colorant, and an ester based wax having an iodine value of not more than 25 and a saponification value of 30 to 300 (for example, at least one selected from the group consisting of meadowfoam oil and derivatives thereof and jojoba oil and derivatives thereof) and a method for producing the same. The present invention also provides a toner comprising silica fine powder containing a component having a polydimethyl siloxane skeleton extracted by an organic solvent at a content of not more than 2.5 wt %, and a method for producing the same. This stabilizes the chargeability and flowability of the toner during long period use, and eliminates the filming on a photoconductive member or a transfer medium. Moreover, toner that provides good fixability, anti-offset properties, waste toner recycle properties, and transfer efficiency can be obtained with good reproducibility.

Abstract: Toner particles may be produced using a semisuspension polymerization process, which includes: (a) providing a mixture of a partially polymerized monomer or comonomers near the onset of the gel-effect; (b) forming a suspension of the partially polymerized monomer or comonomers; and (c) suspension polymerizing the partially polymerized monomer or comonomers while slowly adding a second monomer or comonomers in a starved feed manner. The process may be used to produce toner particles having varied particle properties, and having a morphology ranging from core-shell and inverted core-shell microcapsules to pseudo core-shell microcapsules and to polyblend composites having a low molecular weight phase dispersed in a high molecular weight matrix.

Abstract: According to a toner and a manufacturing method of the present invention, the toner, which is composed of a binding resin component precipitated in particle shapes with a coloring agent component dispersed in the binding resin component, is produced by dissolving the binding resin component in a supercritical fluid (a SCF), blending the coloring agent component in the SCF, and lowering solubility of the binding resin component for precipitating the binding resin component in the particle shapes. Even when the coloring agent content is increased, by the SCF, the toner can maintain dispersibility of the coloring agent component in the binding resin component precipitated in the particle shapes, meanwhile coloring power is also maintained thereby. Therefore, the toner can promote miniaturization of an image forming apparatus using the toner.

Abstract: A toner suitable for use in electrophotography, etc., is composed of toner particles each containing a binder resin, a colorant and a wax component. The toner has a number-average particle size of 2-6 &mgr;m and a standard deviation in particle size of below 2.6 based on a number-basis distribution of circle-equivalent diameters, an average circularity of 0.970-0.995 and a standard deviation in circularity of below 0.030 based on a circularity frequency distribution, and a residual monomer content of at most 500 ppm. The toner particles have such a microtexture as to provide a particle cross section as observed through a transmission electron microscope (TEM) exhibiting a matrix of the binder resin and a particle of the wax dispersed in a discrete form in the matrix of the binder resin.

Abstract: A toner for the development of an electrostatic image is provided wherein at least one layer of a particulate resin is coated onto a substantial portion of the surface of an agglomerate of particles made from at least primary polymer particles and primary colorant particles, wherein at least one of the primary polymer particles and the particulate resin contains a wax, and the particulate resin of the outermost layer is substantially free of wax and a process for producing the toner.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic EL panel, in which an organic electroluminescent material is formed between a pair of opposing electrodes, is provided. At least one of the electrodes is transparent or opaque. An emission pixel is obtained through the steps of forming a photoconductor having a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer on the transparent electrode side, charging the photoconductor and thereafter exposing the photoconductor to form an electrostatic latent image at the prospective emission pixel portion, developing the electrostatic latent image by using toner kneaded with an electroluminescent medium, and fixing the toner on the photoconductor after development. An EL panel manufactured by the above method is also disclosed.

Abstract: An electrophotographic toner, which is useful in an image forming method in which a toner image, which is formed on a latent image bearing member, is transferred onto an intermediate transfer member and then the transferred toner image is transferred onto a receiving material, including toner particles including a binder resin and a colorant, and a particulate fluorine-containing material.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image excellent in fixing property and particularly in light transmissibility and coloring property and satisfying high image quality and high reliability, and a process for producing the same, as well as a developer for an electrostatic image and a process for forming an image are provided. The toner for developing an electrostatic image contains at least a resin component and colorant particles, and the colorant particles exhibit a dispersion state inside the toner observed by a transmission electron microscope. The dispersion state satisfies two conditions, where (1) the colorant particles have a dispersion average particle diameter of 100 nm or less, and (2) the colorant particles have a content of coarse particles of a diameter of 400 nm or more 5% by number or less of the total of the colorant particles.

Abstract: An image forming method comprises the steps of charging an electrostatic latent image bearing member, imagewise exposing the charged electrostatic latent image bearing member to form an electrostatic latent image thereon, developing the electrostatic latent image with a toner held on a toner holding member to form a toner image and transferring the toner image onto a transfer-receiving medium. The electrostatic latent image is developed by bringing a toner layer formed out of the toner held on the toner holding member into contact with the surface of the electrostatic latent image bearing member. The toner has toner particles containing at least a colorant, a wax and a binder resin. The wax: (a) in a DSC curve measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, shows an endothermic peak in a region from 50° C. to 130° C.