Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaaki Takama

Junji Machida

Akihito Ikegawa

Yoshitaka Sekiguchi

Chikara Tsutsui

Tetsuo Sano

An image forming apparatus and an image forming method including a first process in which a resin-formed image is formed on a recording medium, and a second process in which the image formed on the recording medium is brought into contact with a solution containing a plasticizer which plasticizes the resin contained in the image.

Image forming method and apparatus for forming a resin-formed image on a

A monocomponent developer comprising a binder resin, a colorant and first and second offset preventing agents, wherein a softening point of said binder resin (Tm.sub.1), that of said first offset preventing agent (Tm.sub.2) and that of said second offset preventing agent (Tm.sub.3) satisfies relationship;

Developer containing two kinds of wax

An image forming apparatus comprises an image carrier for carrying an electrostatic latent image on its surface, a charging member for charging the image carrier to a predetermined polarity by contacting with the surface of the image carrier, latent image forming means for forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to image information on the surface of the image carrier charged, and a developing device containing toner including toner particles not less than 90% of which have a shape factor SF-1 expressed by the following equation of not more than 160 and less than 1% of which have a shape factor SF-1 of not less than 170 so as to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image carrier into a toner image:

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Toyonaka, Japan

Masaaki Takama