Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kohichi Sakata

Tomoyuki Ichikawa

Shinya Nakayama

Hideki Sugiura

Yasuaki Iwamoto

Osamu Uchinokura

Akihiro Kotsugai

Yasuo Asahina

Satoshi Mochizuki

Hitoshi Iwatsuki

Kazuhiko Umemura

Hisashi Nakajima

Masayuki Ishii

Tomoko Utsumi

Shinya Grand River Ave 201 Nakayama

A toner including a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein a hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP)-soluble component satisfies the following relationship:2,000 &#x2266;Mn &#x2266;7,000 and 1.5 &#x2266;Mn/Mw &#x2266;10

Toner, developer, image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image forming method including: forming a toner image on a support using a toner including toner particles; and feeding the support bearing the toner image thereon through a nip between an endless toner heating member and a pressure roller to fix the toner image on the support, wherein the endless toner heating member is rotated while stretched by a fixing roller and a heat roller which includes a magnetic metal and which is heated by electromagnetic induction, and wherein the pressure roller presses the support to the endless toner heating member and the fixing roller at the nip, wherein the toner particles are prepared by a polymerizing method using a binder resin containing at least a modified polyester resin.

Image forming method using toner

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Numazu, Japan

Kohichi Sakata