Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developer contains: an electrostatic-latent-image-developing toner that has toner particles formed by aggregating and fusing particles of a polyester resin, particles of a styrene resin and particles of a coloring agent in a starting material dispersion liquid of those particles dispersed in an aqueous solvent; and a carrier having a core particle and a resin coating layer to coat the surface of the core particle, wherein the ratio of the exposed area of the core particle to the surface of the carrier is about 7% or less.

Abstract: A two-component developer including a yellow toner and a carrier, the yellow toner including at least one of C. I. Pigment Yellow 155 or C. I. Pigment Yellow 185, and an azo pigment, the carrier including a first resin, magnetic particles dispersed in the first resin, and elements of Cu, Zn, Ni and Mn each in an amount of from 0 to about 2,000 ppm.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developer contains: an electrostatic-latent-image-developing toner that has toner particles formed by aggregating and fusing particles of a polyester resin, particles of a styrene resin and particles of a coloring agent in a starting material dispersion liquid of those particles dispersed in an aqueous solvent; and a carrier having a core particle and a resin coating layer to coat the surface of the core particle, wherein the ratio of the exposed area of the core particle to the surface of the carrier is about 7% or less.

Abstract: A two-component developer including a yellow toner and a carrier, the yellow toner including at least one of C. I. Pigment Yellow 155 or C. I. Pigment Yellow 185, and an azo pigment, the carrier including a first resin, magnetic particles dispersed in the first resin, and elements of Cu, Zn, Ni and Mn each in an amount of from 0 to about 2,000 ppm.

Abstract: A magenta toner for developing electrostatic images provided which contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant includes a mixed crystal of two or more colorants and when a solid patch is fixed on art paper complying with the ISO standard by using this toner, a resulting fixed image color satisfies at least one of the following formulae (b*)<0.85 (a*)?67.92; and (b*)>?7.94(a*)+591.85. The color difference ?E between the color of the fixed image and the color characterized by L*: 46.6, a*: 75.1 and b*: ?4.4 is preferably less than 6. The colorant is preferably a mixed crystal of a quinacridone colorant and a monoazo colorant. Moreover, the invention provides a method for producing the magenta toner, a developer containing the magenta toner, and an image-forming method using the magenta toner.

Abstract: The present invention provides a toner for electrophotography comprising a binder resin, a coloring agent and a release agent, wherein the toner has a storage modulus G? of 5.0×102 to 1.0×105 Pa at 180° C. and an adhesive force to an aluminum substrate of not more than 50 N/m at 180° C. The invention also provides an image-forming method, which includes charging a surface of an image-bearing body; forming an electrostatic latent image according to image information on the charged surface of the image-bearing body; developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image-bearing body with the toner to provide a toner image; transferring the toner image formed on the surface of the image-bearing body to a surface of a recording medium, and fusing the toner image transferred on the surface of the recording medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming method wherein the surface of an electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a compound having an unsaturated double bond, a toner for electrostatic latent image development has a binder resin obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer having a vinyl double bond, has at least one kind of metal oxide particles and/or metal nitride particles on the surface of the toner and has a shape factor SF1 of 110 to 140, and the storage of elastic modulus at 160° C. (G?(160)) of the toner for electrostatic latent image development is in a predetermined range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a toner, comprising a binder resin and a colorant, and having a plurality of absorption peaks in a wave number range of 400 to 4,000 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum, wherein among the plurality of absorption peaks, a maximum absorption peak appears at wave number ranging from 500 to 800 cm?1 and, given that the intensity of the maximum absorption peak is P1 and that the intensity of a second greatest absorption peak is P2, P1 and P2 satisfy the following equation (1), a developer comprising this toner, an image forming method using this toner, and an image forming apparatus using this toner. 1.6?P1/P2?6.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for developing electrostatic images characterized in that a reactive polymer which cross-links when heated at a temperature higher than a maximum temperature at the preparation of the toner for developing electrostatic images, at image fixation and/or after fixation, is contained in a toner for developing electrostatic images containing at least a binder resin, and/or is added to the surface thereof.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a color toner providing highly gloss image and documents with excellent long term storability; an electrostatic latent image developer; and an image forming method. Disclosed is a color toner comprising a binder resin and colorant, wherein the weight average molecular weight of the binder resin is from 6000 to 45000, the toner's glass transition temperature (Tg) is from 40 to 70° C., the loss tangent tan ? of dynamic viscoelasticity is from 0.1 to 2.5 in the temperature of from the toner's glass transition temperature (Tg) to the temperature at which the loss modulus (G?) is 1×105 Pa, and the toner comprises 3 to 20% by mass of an ester derivative of an alicyclic compound having 1 or more carboxyl groups, and an electrostatic latent image developer and an image forming method, which use the color toner.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming method comprising the steps of forming an electrostatic latent image on a surface of an electrostatic latent image bearing body, forming a toner image by developing the electrostatic latent image by using a toner, transferring the toner image to the surface of a recording medium, and fusing the transferred toner image on the surface of the recording medium by bringing the toner image into contact with a heating medium, which has a resin coating layer formed on the surface thereof, and thereby melting the toner image. The toner contains a binder resin containing monomers having vinyl double bonds. A storage elasticity of the toner at 180° C. is in a range of 1×103 to 8×103 Pa and a contact angle of the surface of the heating medium to water at 25° C. is in a range of 50 to 100°.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming method for efficiently thermoelectrically transferring and fixing a toner image formed on an electrostatic latent image carrier without scattering of the toner. The image forming method comprises the steps of charging a surface of an electrostatic latent image carrier; exposing the charged surface of the electrostatic latent image carrier to a light beam using optical data corresponding to image data to form a latent image; developing the latent image formed on the surface of the electrostatic latent image carrier with a developer for electrophotography containing a toner for electrophotography to form a toner image; and thermoelectrically transferring the toner image formed on the surface of said electrostatic latent image carrier onto a surface of a recording medium and simultaneously fixing thereon. The toner for electrophotography is comprised of a crystalline polyester resin, the surface temperature of a fixing unit therein is higher by 10° C.

Abstract: An image fixing method capable of favorably fixing a toner containing a crystalline resin is provided. A transfer medium having unfixed images formed of a color toner containing a binder resin that contains a crystalline resin and a colorant is passed between a heating member heated by way of an external heating unit and a pressurizing member, thereby fixing the unfixed images.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a color toner providing highly gloss image and documents with excellent long term storability; an electrostatic latent image developer; and an image forming method. Disclosed is a color toner comprising a binder resin and colorant, wherein the weight average molecular weight of the binder resin is from 6000 to 45000, the toner's glass transition temperature (Tg) is from 40 to 70° C., the loss tangent tan ? of dynamic viscoelasticity is from 0.1 to 2.5 in the temperature of from the toner's glass transition temperature (Tg) to the temperature at which the loss modulus (G?) is 1×105 Pa, and the toner comprises 3 to 20% by mass of an ester derivative of an alicyclic compound having 1 or more carboxyl groups, and an electrostatic latent image developer and an image forming method, which use the color toner.

Abstract: The present invention uses a crystalline resin as a binding resin and provides a toner insuring excellent storability of a resulting image, a method of manufacturing the toner, an electrostatically charged image developer containing the toner, and an image forming method. In the electrophotographic toner containing toner mother particles comprising at least a binding resin and a colorant, a main component of said binding resin comprises a crystalline resin with a melting point in the range from 50 to 120° C. and an average volume particle size in the range from 3.0 to 7.5 ?m, while an average value of the BET specific areas of said toner mother particles is in the range from 0.6 to 3.0 m2/g. The electrophotographic toner manufacturing method comprises the steps of coalescing or associating the binding resin particles with colorant particles, and cooling the aggregated particles at the rate of at least 1° C.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a color toner providing highly gloss image and documents with excellent long term storability; an electrostatic latent image developer; and an image forming method. Disclosed is a color toner comprising a binder resin and colorant, wherein the weight average molecular weight of the binder resin is from 6000 to 45000, the toner's glass transition temperature (Tg) is from 40 to 70° C., the loss tangent tan ? of dynamic viscoelasticity is from 0.1 to 2.5 in the temperature of from the toner's glass transition temperature (Tg) to the temperature at which the loss modulus (G?) is 1×105 Pa, and the toner comprises 3 to 20% by mass of an ester derivative of an alicyclic compound having 1 or more carboxyl groups, and an electrostatic latent image developer and an image forming method, which use the color toner.

Abstract: The present invention provides a toner for electrophotography comprising a binder resin, a coloring agent and a release agent, wherein the toner has a storage modulus G? of 5.0×102 to 1.0×105 Pa at 180° C. and an adhesive force to an aluminum substrate of not more than 50 N/m at 180° C. The invention also provides an image-forming method, which includes charging a surface of an image-bearing body; forming an electrostatic latent image according to image information on the charged surface of the image-bearing body; developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image-bearing body with the toner to provide a toner image; transferring the toner image formed on the surface of the image-bearing body to a surface of a recording medium, and fusing the toner image transferred on the surface of the recording medium.

Abstract: A magenta toner for developing electrostatic images provided which contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant includes a mixed crystal of two or more colorants and when a solid patch is fixed on art paper complying with the ISO standard by using this toner, a resulting fixed image color satisfies at least one of the following formulae (b*)<0.85 (a*)?67.92; and (b*)>?7.94(a*)+591.85. The color difference ?E between the color of the fixed image and the color characterized by L*: 46.6, a*: 75.1 and b*: ?4.4 is preferably less than 6. The colorant is preferably a mixed crystal of a quinacridone colorant and a monoazo colorant. Moreover, the invention provides a method for producing the magenta toner, a developer containing the magenta toner, and an image-forming method using the magenta toner.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming method comprising the steps of forming an electrostatic latent image on a surface of an electrostatic latent image bearing body, forming a toner image by developing the electrostatic latent image by using a toner, transferring the toner image to the surface of a recording medium, and fusing the transferred toner image on the surface of the recording medium by bringing the toner image into contact with a heating medium, which has a resin coating layer formed on the surface thereof, and thereby melting the toner image. The toner contains a binder resin containing monomers having vinyl double bonds. A storage elasticity of the toner at 180° C. is in a range of 1×103 to 8×103 Pa and a contact angle of the surface of the heating medium to water at 25° C. is in a range of 50 to 100°.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a toner for developing electrostatic images including as a main component thereof a binder resin having a copolymer comprised of a combination of a high Tg monomer having a structure represented by the following structural formula (1) and a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or higher, a low Tg monomer having a structure represented by the following structural formula (2) and a glass transition temperature of lower than 50° C., and a hydrophilic monomer having a structure represented by the following structural formula (3); a process for preparing the toner for developing electrostatic images; a developer for developing electrostatic images containing the toner; and an image forming method using the toner.