Abstract: The invention relates to color toner compositions prepared from an aqueous pigment concentrate dispersion which renders a toner exhibiting improved pigment dispersion, and consequently improved image density and color characteristics.

Abstract: The toner according to the present invention may be produced from a toner raw composition which comprises a foaming agent, a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises a black metal compound, the foaming agent has a volume-average particle diameter of 2 ?m to 50 ?m, the toner raw composition turns into a porous mixture while the foaming agent expands at melting and kneading the toner raw composition, and the toner obtained through milling and classifying the porous mixture has a specific density of 1.0 g/cm3 to 1.3 g/cm3, wherein the specific density is determined as follows: 1 gram of toner is pressed at 400 kgf/cm2 for five minutes in a discal cavity having a diameter of 20 mm, then the discal toner is removed; the discal toner volume (V) is calculated from the diameter and height, measured at 10 minutes after releasing the pressure on the discal toner, and the discal toner mass (W) is measured; then the specific density is determined from the following formula: Specific Density (?T)=W/V.

Abstract: The invention relates to color toner compositions prepared from a process for the preparation of a dry toner powder from an aqueous pigment concentrate dispersion comprising: blending at least an aqueous-based pigment concentrate dispersion and a resin to produce a paste; charging the paste to an extruder to generate an extruded pigment/resin mixture; dispersing the extruded pigment/resin mixture in a low boiling organic medium to create an organic phase; dispersing the organic phase in an aqueous phase containing a particulate stabilizer and mixing the organic phase and the aqueous phase at elevated temperature and under shear force to form toner particles of a controlled size and shape; removing the organic solvent and particulate stabilizer from the formed particles; and washing, drying, and collecting the particles for use as a dry toner powder.

Abstract: A toner is provided including a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, which has a volume average particle diameter (Dv) of from 3 to 9 ?m, and wherein the binder resin and the release agent form a sea-island structure in which the island formed of the release agent is dispersed in the sea formed of the binder resin in a cross-sectional image of the toner obtained by a transmission electron microscope (TEM), and the following relationships are satisfied: IB>IA and IB>IC, wherein each of IA, IB, and IC represents an area ratio (%) of the island in an outermost region (A) of the cross-sectional image of the toner, an intermediate region (B) thereof located under the outermost region (A), and an innermost region (C) thereof located under the intermediate region (B); and a method of preparing the toner.

Abstract: To provide a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, which has a good low temperature fixing property whereby it is useful for an image-forming device of a low temperature heat fixing system using a heat roll having a surface temperature of at most 150° C. and it does not fuse to a blade or a toner transport roller, and which is excellent in durability with little change in the image quality in a continuous copying operation. A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, having base toner particles comprising at least a binder resin and a coloring agent, wherein the base toner particles contain an oil having a surface tension of at most 30 mN/m at 25° C., and the toner has a softening point of at most 100° C.

Abstract: A method for preparing a toner including toner particles, including granulating a toner constituent mixture to prepare toner constituent particles having a polar group with a first polarity on a surface thereof; and mixing a surfactant having a second polarity different from the first polarity and a particulate material with the toner constituent particles to prepare the toner particles. A toner prepared by the method mentioned above. An image forming method including developing a latent image with the toner; transferring the toner image on a receiving material optionally via an intermediate transfer medium, and fixing the toner image on the receiving material. A process cartridge including a developer container containing a developer including the toner mentioned above, and at least one of an image bearing member; a charger; a developing device; and a cleaner.

Abstract: The toner for developing an electrostatic image, includes a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant. The colorant has Feret's average horizontal diameter from 10 nm to 500 nm, and 50 number % or more of colorant has a Feret's horizontal diameter of from 2 nm to 300 nm.

Abstract: The invention provides a toner for developing electrostatic charged images comprising toner mother particles containing a binder resin and a colorant, and an external additive, wherein: the average of shape factors SF1 of the toner mother particles represented by the following Formula (1) is 140 or less; the external additive contains higher alcohol particles having a volume-average particle diameter of 1 to 12 ?m; and the content of the higher alcohol particles having a diameter equal to or less than the volume-average particle diameter of the toner mother particles is in a range of 0.15 to 2.5 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the toner mother particles. In addition, the invention provides a developer for developing electrostatic charged images comprising the toner. Further, the invention provides an image forming method using the toner.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes a development unit using a developer support having a conductive surface layer, and a control unit for causing an idle operation of the developer support to be performed at a predetermined timing in a non-print state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member to bear a latent electrostatic image, an irradiation device and developing device to develop a toner latent electrostatic image on the image bearing member, a cleaning blade to remove toner particles remaining on the image bearing member, and a transfer device to transfer the toner image formed on the image bearing member to a recording material. The image forming apparatus satisfies relationships (1) and (2): (1) 0.10< or =Dm3/V< or =3.41, wherein Dm represents a weight average particle diameter of the toner and V represents a circumference velocity of the image bearing member; and (2) Tave< or =1.40 kgf·cm, wherein Tave represents the average of a torque T of the image bearing member when the torque is measured for 15 seconds while the cleaning blade is in contact with the image bearing member.

Abstract: A color toner composition for developing latent electrostatic images includes nanopowder-coated toner particles, the powder-coated toner particles being characterized in that each comprises a core toner particle having a volume average diameter, Dp, and the core toner particles have affixed to their surfaces a plurality of discrete colorant powder particles having a volume average diameter, dp, wherein the ratio of Dp/dp is at least about 5 and the weight fraction of colorant powder particles is at least about 0.01 based on the combined weight of core toner particles and colorant powder particles. Preferably, the weight fraction of colorant powder particles is from about 0.3 to about 3 times the product, (?p/?r) (d/r) (1+d/r)2, where ?p is the density of the colorant powder particles, ?r the density of the core resin particles, d, the volumetric mean diameter of the colorant powder particles and r the volumetric mean radius of the toner core resin particles.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner comprises toner particles comprising a resin and a colorant, and the toner comprises metal oxide particles have a domain-matrix structure comprising a domain and a matrix.

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: The object of the present invention is to provide a toner which is excellent in shelf stability for a long term by producing the toner through controlling the dispersion condition of the wax around the toner surface and through improving, not only the off-set resistance of the toner for rendering the fixing properties of the toner advantageous, but also the blocking resistance of the toner, wherein the toner contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax, wherein the amount of the wax is 3% by mass to 21% by mass, and the amount of the wax which is present in the portion of the toner particle which is in the range of from the outermost surface to the depth of 0.3 ?m in the toner particle is in a specified range, and at least a part of the wax is present as plural individual wax dispersion particles involved in the toner particles.

Abstract: Spherical toners having excellent fusibility are disclosed. The toners are fusible at low temperatures and are excellent in preservability and therefore charge properties, flowability, and transferability do not deteriorate. The toners contain a colorant and a nitrogen-containing polyester resin, in which the concentration of nitrogen at the surface of toner particles is higher than the concentration of nitrogen of the entire particles. The ratio of the surface concentration to the overall concentration is from 1.2 to 10. Additionally, the nitrogen-containing resin is preferably a polyester resin modified by urea bonds. Also, it is preferred that the toner particles are substantially spherical having an average sphericity E of from 0.90 to 0.99.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a toner image is formed on a photosensitive element and a transfer roller, which carries a transfer medium, is pressed against a photosensitive element at a pressure of from 20.4 N/cm2 to 200 N/cm2.

Abstract: Toner for electrostatic latent image development includes at least a resin, a coloring agent and a crystalline compound, wherein the toner particle has sea-island structure and the crystalline compound is n-paraffin of particular structure.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an process for image formation using an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet having excellent anti-offset properties, adhesion resistance, paper transport properties and gloss, and being resistant to cracks, and able to form a high-definition image. For this purpose, there is provided an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet which includes a toner image-receiving layer containing at least a thermoplastic resin and natural wax having an light transmittance of 78% or less, on a support having an light transmittance of 30% or less, and an process for image formation using this electrophotographic image-receiving sheet.

Abstract: An image forming method comprising the step of transferring a toner image while applying vibration by ultrasonic wave where in the toner particle forming the toner image has a sea-island structure containing at least two islands of a releasing agent, and the average of the nearest distance between the islands is from approximately 100 nm to approximately 1060 nm and the number of the island having the nearest wall distance of not less than 1300 nm is not more than 10% of the whole number of the islands contained in the toner particle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process cartridge that is freely attachable to and detachable from a main body of an image forming apparatus and that includes a latent image bearing body and a developing device having a developer storage space for storing a developer, the image forming apparatus and an image forming method. The invention also provides another image forming method using a one-component magnetic toner that is employable in a wide region of from a low process speed to a high process speed while achieving a high fixing ability.

Abstract: An image-forming color toner contains at least a colorant, a resin (A), a modified resin (B) and a wax (a) as a mold releasing agent, the image-forming color toner having a phase separated structure comprising the modified resin (B) as a domain in the resin (A) as a continuous phase, and wax (a) being effectively contained the modified resin (B). The modified resin (B) has a wax part containing a wax component (b), and a modified part formed of a vinyl monomer unit and an average ester group concentration of 8% by weight to 30% by weight.

Abstract: The softening point of the binder resin and the thickness of the rubber layer of the fixing roller are optimized and thus it becomes possible to form a high-quality full-color image at a low cost.

Abstract: A dry toner contains at least a toner binder, organic fine particles, a colorant, a wax, a charge control agent, and an external additive. The wax is concentrated in the vicinity of a toner core including the toner binder, colorant and wax. The organic fine particles adhere to the surface of the toner core to form a base toner-particle, the fine particle of charge control agent adhere to the surface of the base toner-particle, and the external additive is located on the surface thereof.

Abstract: Toner particles are described containing at least one toner resin and at least one wax. The wax present in the toner particles has an average domain size of about 1 micron or less. Developer systems, two component and monocomponent, are further described as well development systems and methods for developing an electrostatic image.

Abstract: A toner including a thermoplastic resin; a colorant; a wax; and a crystalline polymer, wherein a DSC endothermic peak temperature of the wax or the crystalline polymer determined by subjecting the toner to a differential scanning calorimetric analysis is lower by not less than 2° C. than a DSC endothermic peak temperature thereof determined when only the wax or the crystalline polymer is subjected to the differential calorimetric analysis.

Abstract: A color toner including toner particles including a colorant, a binder resin, and a wax; and an external additive including at least one of an inorganic particulate material and a particulate resin, wherein the binder resin includes a polyester resin (A) having a crystallinity and a formula (—O—CO—CR1=CR2-CO—O—(CH2)n—)m, wherein R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrocarbon, and n and m are repeating numbers; a resin (B); and a resin (C), wherein the resins (B) and (C) and the wax have an island-sea structure such that the resin (C) is present like islands in a sea of the resin (B) and the wax is substantially included in the resin (C). A toner container, an image forming method, an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge including the color toner are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a static latent image developing toner comprising toner particles, each of the toner particles comprising a toner intermediate particle having inorganic oxide particles on the surface, wherein a surface existence density of the inorganic oxide particle having a feret's diameter of 110 nm to 160 nm on the toner intermediate particle is 5 to 50 per ?m2, and relates to a developer comprising the toner and an image forming method utilizing the toner.

Abstract: A ceramic toner which is transferable to a high-temperature resistant glass, glass ceramic or ceramic substrate by electrophotographic printing and which can be fired in a subsequent temperature process, containing color pigment particles in addition to special glass flow particles. According to this invention, the ceramic toner has a thermoplastic synthetic matrix which melts in a homogeneous manner on the substrate within a temperature range of 100° C.–400° C. and which, within the temperature range of 300° C.–500° C., vaporizes in an almost residue-free manner and/or decomposes in order to obtain a toner which can be transferred especially in a direct printing mode and which has almost no synthetic matrix residue after firing.

Abstract: An electrostatic photographic image forming toner is disclosed. The toner comprises a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant in which the binder resin has a specific softening point of from 105 to 132° C. and the toner particle has a hardness of from 6.0 to 24.0 mN and a circularity of from 0.92 to 0.99.

Abstract: A chemically prepared toner for electrophotographic printers and method therefor using a unique polymeric dispersant. The chemically prepared toner includes agglomerated polymeric dispersant stabilized pigment particles, a fuser release agent, a charge control agent dispersion, and a self-stabilized essentially surfactant free latex binder. The polymeric dispersant includes at least three segments, a hydrophilic polymeric segment, a hydrophobic polymeric segment, and a protective colloid or reactive surfactant segment. The weight average molecular weight range of the dispersant ranges from about 5,000 to about 30,000, and a hydrophobicity ranging from about 10 to about 90 percent by weight. The chemically prepared toner includes agglomerated toner particles have a unimodal particles size distribution with a number average particle size (N) ranging from about 5.0 to about 8.5 microns and a volume average particle size (V) ranging from about 5.0 to about 8.5 microns.

Abstract: An image-forming color toner contains at least a colorant, a resin (A), a modified resin (B) and a wax (a) as a mold releasing agent, the image-forming color toner having a phase separated structure comprising the modified resin (B) as a domain in the resin (A) as a continuous phase, and wax (a) being effectively contained the modified resin (B). The modified resin (B) has a wax part containing a wax component (b), and a modified part formed of a vinyl monomer unit and an average ester group concentration of 8% by weight to 30% by weight.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, comprising a colorant, a releasing agent and a binder resin, wherein said binder resin comprises a first, non-linear resin, a second, linear resin, and a modified wax comprising a wax moiety and a vinyl polymer moiety having an ester group content of 8 to 30% by weight based on the weight of the vinyl polymer moiety.

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: The present invention relates to a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image comprising a binder resin, a colorant, a first wax, and a second wax whose kind is different from that of the first wax, wherein the toner is prepared by a kneading-grinding method and integrated domains of the first wax and the second wax are dispersed in the binder resin.

Abstract: The softening point of the binder resin and the thickness of the rubber layer of the fixing roller are optimized and thus it becomes possible to form a high-quality full-color image at a low cost.

Abstract: Charged toner particles for use in electrostatic imaging, comprising: a toner polymer; and at least one particulate fluorescent material, wherein the toner particles are formed with fibrous extensions.

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” (?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: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, a process for producing the same, a developer for developing an electrostatic image and a process for forming an image are disclosed. The toner contains a resin, a colorant and a releasing agent, in which the toner has protrusions having a height of about from 0.05 to 2 ?m, a part of the protrusions encompasses the releasing agent, and a proportion of elements derived from the releasing agent is about 10% by atom or less based on elements on a surface of the toner that is quantitatively determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Abstract: An image forming method comprising the step of transferring a toner image while applying vibration by ultrasonic wave where in the toner particle forming the toner image has a sea-island structure containing at least two islands of a releasing agent, and the average of the nearest distance between the islands is from approximately 100 nm to approximately 1060 nm and the number of the island having the nearest wall distance of not less than 1300 nm is not more than 10% of the whole number of the islands contained in the toner particle.

Abstract: A toner composition including toner particles including at least a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner composition satisfies at least one of the following relationships (1) and (2):

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a coloring agent and toner particles, said toner particles have a matrix-domain structure, and the average of the area of a Voronoi polygon formed by the perpendicular bisecting line between the centers of gravity of domains adjacent to each other in said matrix-domain structure is from 20,000 to 120,000 nm2, and the variation coefficient of the area of said Voronoi polygon is less than or equal to 25 percent. Color image having, particularly good transparency and excellent color difference, can be obtained by the toner which is not affected by a residual material present on the surface of toner particles and does not result in variation of the amount of static charge at high temperature as well as at high humidity or after long leaving without operation.

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 &mgr;m 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 developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner comprises toner particles comprising a resin and a colorant, and the toner comprises metal oxide particles have a domain-matrix structure comprising a domain and a matrix.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, comprising, a binder resin, a colorant, a charge control agent, and a parting agent, and wherein: a volume average particle diameter (Dv) of toner particles is 3 to 10 &mgr;m; a ratio (Dv/Dp) of Dv to a number average particle diameter (Dp) is 1 to 1.3; an average circle degree is 0.93 to 0.995; and location parameter of island-shaped separate phase is 25 number % or more, wherein the location parameter is the percentage of such sectional photo image of toner particles where a maximum diameter of island-shaped separate phase is 1 &mgr;m or more and an outermost portion of said island-shaped separate phase is present at the depth of 0.01 to 0.15 time of the particle diameter of each toner particle under the surface.

Abstract: A toner including a thermoplastic resin; a colorant; a wax; and a crystalline polymer, wherein a DSC endothermic peak temperature of the wax or the crystalline polymer determined by subjecting the toner to a differential scanning calorimetric analysis is lower by not less than 2° C. than a DSC endothermic peak temperature thereof determined when only the wax or the crystalline polymer is subjected to the differential calorimetric analysis.

Abstract: A dry toner contains at least a toner binder, organic fine particles, a colorant, a wax, a charge control agent, and an external additive. The wax is concentrated in the vicinity of a toner core including the toner binder, colorant and wax. The organic fine particles adhere to the surface of the toner core to form a base toner-particle, the fine particle of charge control agent adhere to the surface of the base toner-particle, and the external additive is located on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A chemically prepared toner for electrophotographic printers and method therefor using a unique polymeric dispersant. The chemically prepared toner includes agglomerated polymeric dispersant stabilized pigment particles, a fuser release agent, a charge control agent dispersion, and a self-stabilized essentially surfactant free latex binder. The polymeric dispersant includes at least three segments, a hydrophilic polymeric segment, a hydrophobic polymeric segment, and a protective colloid or reactive surfactant segment. The weight average molecular weight range of the dispersant ranges from about 5,000 to about 30,000, and a hydrophobicity ranging from about 10 to about 90 percent by weight. The chemically prepared toner includes agglomerated toner particles have a unimodal particles size distribution with a number average particle size (N) ranging from about 5.0 to about 8.5 microns and a volume average particle size (V) ranging from about 5.0 to about 8.5 microns.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of emulsion aggregation toner particles with high pigment loading having a reduced number of wax protrusions on the surface of the toner particles and fewer coarse toner particles. The process includes the introduction of a wax having a molecular weight between about 500 and 2,500, or a blend of waxes having different a molecular weight between 500 and 2,500.

Abstract: A toner and process for making the toner wherein each combined resin and colorant particle has an average size less than about 10 microns and wherein surface additive particles averaging less than about 40 nanometers in size average greater than two (2) percent of the combined weight of resin and colorant in the toner and wherein the Additive Adhesion Force Distribution percent value after 12 kilojoules of energy is greater than 40 percent.

Abstract: A color toner which gives a suitable image gloss and has an excellent color reproducibility, which has sufficient anti-offset properties even when a release oil is not coated on a fixing roller or is coated in only a small amount, and which has excellent transfer properties, durability, and charge stability relative to humidity is disclosed. Also, an image-forming apparatus using the color toner and a toner container filled with the color toner are disclosed. The color toner comprises a continuous phase of a resin containing a urea-modified polyester resin; and a modified resin dispersed in the continuous phase, wherein the modified resin contains a release polymer portion containing a release polymer; and a modified portion containing a plurality of vinyl monomer units, the modified portion having an average ester group concentration of 8% by weight to 30% by weight.