Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a main body casing, a cover, a drum cartridge, a developing cartridge, an intermediate transfer belt and a movable cam. The movable cam is movable among a first position when the cover is in the open position, a second position and a third position when the cover is in the closed position. In a case where the movable cam is in the first position, the photosensitive drum is in a first drum position spaced from the intermediate transfer belt, and the developing roller is in a first developing position spaced from the photosensitive drum. In a case where the movable cam is in the second position, the photosensitive drum is positioned toward the intermediate transfer belt from the first drum position. In a case where the cam is in the third position, the developing roller is positioned toward the photosensitive drum from the first developing position.

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: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle and an external additive. The toner particle contains a binder resin and a release agent that includes a hydrocarbon wax. The binder resin includes a vinyl resin and a hybrid resin in which an amorphous resin unit other than polyester resins and a crystalline polyester resin unit are chemically bound together. The toner particle has hybrid resin domains and release agent domains. An average distance Lhyb from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the hybrid resin domains and an average distance Lwax from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the release agent domains satisfy Lwax<Lhyb.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a polyester resin which includes a condensed polymer of a polyvalent carboxylic acid and a polyol which contains ethylene glycol in an amount of from about 40% by weight to about 90% by weight with respect to a total amount of the polyol, and an external additive that contains silica particles in which a product of a volume average particle diameter D50 (nm) and a BET specific surface area SA (m2/g) is from about 1.4×103 to about 5.0×103.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle and an external additive. The toner particle contains a binder resin and a release agent that includes a hydrocarbon wax. The binder resin includes a vinyl resin and a hybrid resin in which an amorphous resin unit other than polyester resins and a crystalline polyester resin unit are chemically bound together. The toner particle has hybrid resin domains and release agent domains. An average distance Lhyb from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the hybrid resin domains and an average distance Lwax from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the release agent domains satisfy Lwax<Lhyb.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, having a body, a fuser to fix an image on a recording medium by heat, an interface to accept a value for a first time, which is between an end of fixing by the fuser until entry into a low power-consuming condition for the heater, a fan, and a controller, is provided. The controller sets a second time being a predetermined length and subtract the second time from the first time to obtain a third time. If the third time is given a positive value, the controller continues driving the fan after the end of the fixing and throughout the third time, and inactivates the fan after the third time. If the third time is given a value smaller than or equal to zero, the controller inactivates the fan during the first time before the entry into the low power-consuming condition.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, having a body, a fuser to fix an image on a recording medium by heat, an interface to accept a value for a first time, which is between an end of fixing by the fuser until entry into a low power-consuming condition for the heater, a fan, and a controller, is provided. The controller sets a second time being a predetermined length and subtract the second time from the first time to obtain a third time. If the third time is given a positive value, the controller continues driving the fan after the end of the fixing and throughout the third time, and inactivates the fan after the third time. If the third time is given a value smaller than or equal to zero, the controller inactivates the fan during the first time before the entry into the low power-consuming condition.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a polyester resin which includes a condensed polymer of a polyvalent carboxylic acid and a polyol which contains ethylene glycol in an amount of from about 40% by weight to about 90% by weight with respect to a total amount of the polyol, and an external additive that contains silica particles in which a product of a volume average particle diameter D50 (?m) and a BET specific surface area SA (m2/g) is from about 1.4×103 to about 5.0×103.

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: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes a toner particle including a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin, and an external additive including a poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particle. The amount of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles is about 0.05 parts by mass or more and about 1.0 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner particle. The ratio D50P/D50T of the number-average diameter D50P of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles to the number-average diameter D50T of the toner particles satisfies 0.03?D50P/D50T?0.15. The proportion of the styrene-(meth)acrylic resin in a resin component deposited on the surface of the toner particle is about 5 atom % or more and about 30 atom % or less as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a release agent, a colorant, and an aromatic aldehyde compound, the content of which exceeds 100 ppm and is equal to or smaller than 1200 ppm.

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles. The toner particles contain a binder resin, a release agent, and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin. The binder resin contains a polyester resin. About 70% or more of all release agent is present within about 800 nm from surfaces of the toner particles. The styrene-(meth)acrylic resin is present in an amount of about 5 to about 25 atomic percent of the resin components in the surfaces of the toner particles as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes a toner particle including a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin, and an external additive including a poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particle. The amount of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles is about 0.05 parts by mass or more and about 1.0 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner particle. The ratio D50P/D50T of the number-average diameter D50P of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles to the number-average diameter D50T of the toner particles satisfies 0.03?D50P/D50T?0.15. The proportion of the styrene-(meth)acrylic resin in a resin component deposited on the surface of the toner particle is about 5 atom % or more and about 30 atom % or less as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes a toner particle that includes a binder resin including an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin and that includes a styrene-alkyl(meth)acrylate copolymer. The glass transition temperature Tg(A) of the styrene-alkyl(meth)acrylate copolymer and the glass transition temperature Tg(B) of the amorphous polyester resin satisfy Relational expression (1): Tg(B)?10?Tg(A)?Tg(B)+2.5.

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles. The toner particles contain a binder resin, a release agent, and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin. The binder resin contains a polyester resin. About 70% or more of all release agent is present within about 800 nm from surfaces of the toner particles. The styrene-(meth)acrylic resin is present in an amount of about 5 to about 25 atomic percent of the resin components in the surfaces of the toner particles as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin that contains a copolymer formed by copolymerizing at least an aromatic vinyl monomer and an aliphatic unsaturated alkyl carboxylate ester, wherein a weight ratio of component M1 of the aromatic vinyl monomer and component M2 of the aliphatic unsaturated alkyl carboxylate ester in the copolymer satisfies the following expression (1), and a weight ratio of volatile component m1 of the aromatic vinyl monomer and volatile component m2 of the aliphatic unsaturated alkyl carboxylate ester, as measured by a headspace method, satisfies the following expression (2): 0.10?MW2/(MW1+MW2)?0.30??Expression (1) 0.70?mw2/(mw1+mw2)?0.98??Expression (2) wherein MW1 represents the weight of M1, MW2 represents the weight of M2, mw1 represents the weight of m1, and mw2 represents the weight of m2.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin having a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic acid alkyl copolymer resin, a release agent having a hydrocarbon release agent, and an oligomer which includes a styrene structure and whose content is in a range of 1% by weight to 6% by weight with respect to toner particles.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin that contains a polyester resin having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, a di- or higher valent metal ion, and (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester that has an alkyl chain having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, wherein a content of the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester is in a range of 50 ppm to 500 ppm with respect to toner particles.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin having a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic acid alkyl copolymer resin, a release agent having a hydrocarbon release agent, and an oligomer which includes a styrene structure and whose content is in a range of 1% by weight to 6% by weight with respect to toner particles.