Abstract: To provide a toner for electrophotography and a binder resin, exhibiting an excellent fog suppression capability. A toner for electrophotography and a binder resin each containing a resin A having at least a polyester moiety obtained through polycondensation of an alcohol component, a carboxylic acid component, and a polyhydroxyamine compound represented by the formula (1) in an amount of 0.01% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less based on the total amount of all the monomer components of the resin A.

Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner includes at least two types of polyester resins and a release agent. When the toner is subjected to a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at a frequency of 6.28 rad/sec to obtain a temperature-dependent curve of loss tangent (tan ?), and the temperature-dependent curve is differentiated one time with temperature, a resulting curve has a maximum value of 0.07 or more and a minimum value of 0.025 or less within a temperature range of from 85° C. to 110° C. When the toner is subjected to a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), an endothermic amount measured in a first temperature rising in the DSC is 3.5 J/g or less within a temperature range of from 85° C. to 120° C.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are concerned with a method for producing a binder resin composition, from which a toner having excellent low-temperature fusing property, heat-resistant storage stability, durability, and image density is obtained, a binder resin composition, and a toner for development of electrostatic images including the binder resin composition. Embodiments according to the present invention are concerned with the following [1] to [3].

Abstract: The toner composition of the present invention and method to make the same includes toner particles mixed with a specific set of extra particulate additives including large colloidal silica sized 90 nm to 120 nm and having a conductivity of less than 20 ?s/cm in combination with medium size silica particles sized 30 nm to 60 nm. Optionally, additional extra particular additives such as silica sized 2 nm to 20 nm, alumina, titania or mixtures thereof can be used. The finished toner having these specific additives exhibited superior printing performance.

Abstract: A toner comprising a binder resin is provided. When the toner is observed with an atomic force microscope in tapping mode to obtain a phase image and the phase image is binarized with an intermediate value between maximum and minimum phase difference values in the phase image to obtain a binarized image, the binarized image consists of first phase-contrast portions having a large phase difference and second phase-contrast portions having a small phase difference, where the first phase-contrast portions are dispersed in the second phase-contrast portions and a dispersion diameter of the first phase-contrast portions is in a range of from 150 to 500 nm. The toner has at least two glass transition temperatures (Tg) in respective ranges of from 40° C. to 65° C. and from ?30° C. to 20° C., determined from a DSC curve obtained at a first temperature rise in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement by a midpoint method.

Abstract: In an image forming method, a black toner and a color toner other than the black toner are used. The black toner and the color toner each include a binder resin including a polyester resin as a main component and a vinyl resin, a releasing agent, and an external additive. A content Vk % by mass of the vinyl resin relative to total mass of the binder resin included in the black toner, a content Vc % by mass of the vinyl resin relative to total mass of the binder resin included in the color toner, a content Wk % by mass of the releasing agent relative to the total mass of the binder resin included in the black toner, and a content Wc % by mass of the releasing agent relative to the total mass of the binder resin included in the color toner satisfy a specific relationship.

Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including: toner particles; and strontium titanate particles A and strontium titanate particles B having different average primary particle diameters from each other. The strontium titanate particles B have an average primary particle diameter Db of 10 nm to 100 nm. An average primary particle diameter Da of the strontium titanate particles A and the average primary particle diameter Db of the strontium titanate particles B satisfy a relationship of 10?Da/Db?100.

Abstract: A toner, where a diffraction peak of the toner as measured by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy is present at least in a region where 2? is from 20° through 25°, and a difference between Tg1 and Tg2 is 10° C. or less, where Tg1 is a glass transition temperature of the toner, as observed in a last heating step, when heating and cooling are performed on the toner by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the heating and cooling conditions 1 defined in the specification, and Tg2 is a glass transition temperature of the toner, as observed in a last heating step, when heating and cooling are performed on the toner by means of the differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the heating and cooling conditions 2 defined in the specification.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer includes: a toner that includes toner particles which contain a polyester resin and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin and form a sea-island structure which includes a sea portion containing the polyester resin and an island portion containing the styrene (meth)acrylic resin on a surface of the toner particle, and has an exposure rate of the styrene (meth)acrylic resin in a range of from about 5 atom % to about 20 atom %; and an external additive, and a carrier whose fluidity and bulk density under environment of a temperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 50% satisfy Expression: 65.0?fluidity×bulk density?72.5.

Abstract: A toner including polyester, wherein an amount of heat of a peak derived from the polyester in a range of from 40° C. through 70° C. during a cooling process is from 1.0 J/g through 15 J/g in differential scanning calorimetry performed under conditions below, <measuring conditions> after maintaining the toner at ?20° C., heating the toner to 130° C. at 10° C./min (a first heating process), after maintaining the toner at 130° C. for 1 minute, cooling the toner to ?50° C. at cooling speed of 10° C./min (the cooling process), and after maintaining the toner at ?50° C. for 5 minutes, heating the toner to 130° C. at 10° C./min (a second heating process).

Abstract: A toner set for use in an image forming apparatus is provided. The toner set includes a fluorescent toner and a color toner. The fluorescent toner comprises a binder resin and a fluorescent agent. The color toner comprises a binder resin and a colorant. A 60-degree gloss value (Gf) of a solid image of the fluorescent toner is in a range of from 10 to 25, and a difference (Gn?Gf) between a 60-degree gloss value (Gn) of a solid image of the color toner and the 60-degree gloss value (Gf) of the solid image of the fluorescent toner is in a range of from 10 to 28.

Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle, wherein the toner particle contains a polyester resin and a fatty acid metal salt, the toner contains a tetrahydrofuran-soluble component A with a molecular weight of at least 1,000 and not more than 5,000, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, in an amount of at least 25 mass % and not more than 80 mass %, and a mass ratio of the fatty acid metal salt to the tetrahydrofuran-soluble component A is at least 0.003 and not more than 0.060.

Abstract: Provided is an image recording composition used for an electrostatic image developing toner or an ink-jet ink, containing a photoisomerization compound which is a stilbene derivative having a structure represented by Formula (1), wherein R1 represents an electron donating group; R2 represents an electron withdrawing group; R3 to R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group which may have a branch, provided that at least one of R3 to R10 represents an alkyl group which may have a branch.

Abstract: The magenta toner for developing electrostatic images includes colored resin particles containing a binder resin and a magenta colorant, and an external additive. A volume average particle diameter of the colored resin particles is from 5.5 ?m to 7.0 ?m. The external additive contains silica particles. The silica particles contain at least silica particles A having a number average particle diameter of from 5 nm to 30 nm and silica particles B having a number average particle diameter of from 31 nm to 100 nm; wherein a total content of the silica particles is from 0.5 part by mass to 4.5 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the colored resin particles. A liberation rate of the silica particles calculated by a specific liberation rate measuring method is in a range of from 2.2% to 9.5%.

Abstract: An image forming method uses a color toner including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner, and a black toner. The image forming method includes a toner image forming step of forming a toner image by developing the color toner on an electrostatic latent image formed by charging and exposing a surface of an electrostatic latent image bearing member, a transfer step of transferring the toner image onto a recording medium to form a color toner image, and a fixing step of fixing the color toner image on the recording medium. Each toner contain at least a binder resin, a coloring agent, a release agent, and a layered silicate compound. The volume average particle diameter of each toner is 4 to 6 ?m. The content of the aluminum element in each toner represented by the Net intensity by WDXRF analysis has a specific relationship.

Abstract: A radiation curable dry toner includes core-shell toner particles. The core-shell toner particles have an average volume-based diameter between 5 and 10 micrometre, and a core-shell toner particle thereof includes an inner portion having a radiation curable first resin material consisting of at least 90 weight %, preferably at least 95 weight %, of the total amount of resin material of the inner portion; an outer shell surrounding said inner portion, said outer shell including a second resin material, said second resin material being any one of the following: cured first resin material; or a resin material which is different from the first resin material.

Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner includes toner particles each comprising a binder resin and plate-like pigment particles. In a cross-section of the toner, the plate-like pigment particles have an average thickness D of 1.0 ?m or less and a maximum length L of 5.0 ?m or more. In a fixed toner image formed with the toner, the plate-like pigment particles have a maximum width W of 3.0 ?m or more. The toner has a circularity of from 0.950 to 0.985.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for generative production of at least one component area of a component (12), in particular of a component (12) of a flow machine. Therein, the device (10) can include at least one lowerable component platform (16) with at least one construction and joining zone (20) for receiving at least one powder layer of a component material, at least one heating device (24, 28) movable relative to the component platform (16) and at least one radiation source for generating at least one high-energy beam (22), by means of which the powder layer can be locally melted and/or sintered to a component layer in the area of the construction and joining zone (20), as well as at least one suction and/or gas supply device (36) disposed on the heating device (24, 28). However, the device (10) can also include at least one coater (14).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrostatic ink composition comprising a component selected from a fatty acid ester having a plurality of hydroxyl substituents and a fatty acid amide having a plurality of hydroxyl substituents. Also described herein are scratch-off structures and methods for producing them.

Abstract: Herein is described a liquid electrostatic printing method comprising providing a liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising a carrier liquid and chargeable particles comprising a resin; and providing an adhesion promoting composition comprising an adhesion promoter. The liquid electrostatic ink composition is contacted with a latent electrostatic image disposed on a surface to create a developed ink image. The developed ink image is transferred to an intermediate transfer member. The adhesion promoting composition is deposited on the intermediate transfer member to form an adhesion promoting layer. The adhesion promoting layer and the developed ink image are transferred to a print substrate, such that the adhesion promoting layer is disposed on the print substrate and the developed ink image is disposed on the adhesion promoting layer.