Xerox Corporation

John S Walters

Scott M Silence

Padam K Angra

Roger N Ciccarelli

Samuel Kaplan

Thomas R Pickering

Denise R Bayley

Alexander N Klymachyov

William H Hollenbaugh, Jr

Amy L Stamp

Joo T Chung

Edward J Gutman

Kip L Jugle

James M Proper

James A Winters

Michael L Grande

James G Stenzel

Yelena Shapiro

Zhaoyi M Masucci

Joseph H Rowe

Maria M Barden

Winters James A A

A carrier composition having magnetite with a diameter of from about 80 microns to about 150 microns, and wherein the carrier has a conductivity of from about 10to about 10(ohms-cm)and a carrier breakdown voltage of from about 20 to about 200 volts, and a developer composition with toner and this carrier composition, and also including a developer housing apparatus and an electrostatographic apparatus comprising the developer housing apparatus.

Carrier and developer compositions

An apparatus comprised of a charging component, a development component, a transport component, a photoconductive component, and a fusing component, and wherein the development component contains a toner comprising at least one binder in an optional amount of from about 85 to about 99 percent by weight, at least one colorant in an optional amount of from about 0.5 to about 15 percent by weight, and calcium stearate in an optional amount of from about 0.05 to about 2 percent by weight and wherein following triboelectric contact with carrier particles, the toner has a charge Q measured in femtocoulombs per particle diameter D measured in microns (Q/D) of from about &#x2212;0.1 to about &#x2212;1 fC/&#x3bc;m with a variation during development of from about 0 to about 0.25 fC/&#x3bc;m and wherein the distribution is substantially unimodal and possesses a peak width of from about 0.1 fC/&#x3bc;m to about 0.5 fC/&#x3bc;m and the toner possesses a charge to mass M, as measured in grams, ratio (Q/M) of from about &#x2212;25 to about &#x2212;70 &#x3bc;C/gram with variation of Q/M during development of from about 0 to about 15 &#x3bc;C/gram.

Toners and developers

A toner comprised of resin, colorant and calcium stearate.

At least three differently colored toners, designed for use together in forming a color image in an image developing device, have substantially the same melt flow index value. By substantially matching the melt flow index values of at least three toners of a set of toners, it has been found that the resultant color image has an overall excellent image quality, i.e., an excellent overall gloss level without any gloss banding. The toners may be made to have substantially the same melt flow index value in a carefully controlled process that includes forming a single toner by feeding at least one binder and at least one colorant into a mixing device to form a mixture, upon exit of the mixture from the mixing device, measuring a rheology property of the mixture with at least one monitoring device, and comparing the measured rheology property to a target property range that the measured rheology property must be within in order for the single toner to achieve the desired melt flow index value, wherein if the measuring indicates that the rheology property is outside of the target property range, feed amounts of the at least one binder or of the at least one colorant into the mixing device are adjusted, grinding the mixture, optionally together with a portion of one or more external additives to be added to the mixture, classifying the ground mixture, mixing the classified mixture with one or more external surface additives to obtain the single toner having the desired melt flow index value, and repeating the steps for each additional differently colored toner.

Color-blind melt flow index properties for toners

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John S Walters