Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Masaharu Matsubara

Naoya Tonegawa

Takanari Kayamori

Atsushi Iioka

Kouji Sekiguchi

Noboru Ueda

Asao Matsushima

Mitsutoshi Nakamura

Shigenori Kouno

Go Yamaguchi

Kouji Izawa

Kazumi Oura

Takayuki Suzuki

Yoshiaki Kobayashi

Hiroshi Nagasawa

Shiro Hirano

Kouji Sugama

Koji Shibata

Hiroyuki Kozuru

Makoto Nomiya

Ikuko Sakurada

Natsuki Ito

Akihiko Itami

Atsushi Iloka

Disclosed is an image forming method including: developing, with an electrostatic charge image developing toner, a latent image formed on a photoreceptor in which a photosensitive layer is formed on a support containing aluminum as a main component; transferring a toner image on the photoreceptor onto a transfer target; and rubbing and removing the electrostatic charge image developing toner remaining on the photoreceptor after the transferring. The support contains silicon in a range of more than 0.6% by mass and 12.6% by mass or less, a shape factor of toner particles included in the electrostatic charge image developing toner is in a range of 0.800 to 0.970, and a content of the toner particles having a particle diameter of 2 μm or less is in a range of 5% by number to 30% by number.

Image forming method and image forming system

An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner base particles, wherein the toner base particles contain: an amorphous polyester resin; a crystalline resin; and o-acetoacetaniside, and the content of the o-acetoacetaniside in the toner base particles is 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 200 ppm by mass or less.

Electrostatic image developing toner and developer

The electrostatic charge image developing toner of the present invention is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including a toner mother particle including at least a binding resin, and an external additive attached onto a surface of the toner mother particle, wherein a median size on a volume basis of the toner mother particle is in the range from 3.0 to 5.0 &#x3bc;m, the binding resin contains at least an amorphous polyester resin as a main component, and a spherical silica particle () having a number average particle size in the range from 20 to 55 nm is included as the external additive.

Electrostatic charge image developing toner and two-component developer

To provide a magenta toner for electrostatic charge image development including a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous resin as a binder resin, which is a means for improving low temperature fixability, scattering properties, GI value, saturation, and light fastness. A magenta toner for electrostatic charge image development including an amorphous resin and a crystalline polyester resin as a binder resin, wherein predetermined quinacridone-based pigment, metal element-containing monoazo pigment, and naphthol AS-based pigment are included as a coloring agent, and the combined content of the quinacridone-based pigment and the metal element-containing monoazo pigment is 50-90% by mass of the total coloring agent.

Magenta toner for electrostatic charge image development

An electrostatic charge image developing white toner according to the present invention includes toner base particles including rutile type titanium oxide particles as colorant and a binder resin. The rutile type titanium oxide particles are composed of two groups Ga and Gb of rutile type titanium oxide particles have different volume particle size distribution. A volume particle size distribution curve of the rutile type titanium oxide particles represents diameter on a horizontal axis and volume ratio on a vertical axis and has two main peaks. Diameters Da and Db of peak top positions of the two main peaks are respectively within a range of 100 to 500 nm, and satisfy following Relational expressions:(Relational expression 1):&#x2003;&#x2003;25 nm&#x2264;&#x2264;200 nm(Relational expression 2):&#x2003;&#x2003;(mass of):(mass of)=5:95 to 30:70.

Electrostatic charge image developing white toner, manufacturing method thereof, image forming apparatus, and image forming method

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner matrix particle having a core-shell structure. The toner matrix particle contains: a core particle including an amorphous resin, a colorant, a release agent, and a crystalline resin; and a shell layer coating a surface of the core particle at a coverage of 60 to 99%. The shell layer includes an amorphous resin. The amorphous resin contained in the core particle differs from the amorphous resin contained in the shell layer. The toner matrix particle has one to seven discrete shell domains determined by observation of a cross section of the toner matrix particle with an electron microscope.

Electrostatic charge image developing toner

A method of producing a toner for developing electrostatic images includes Steps I to III is provided. The toner includes a toner matrix particle having a core-shell structure. The toner matrix particle includes a core particle including an amorphous resin A and a crystalline material, and a shell including an amorphous resin B. The shell includes a phase of the amorphous resin B that is not fused with the core particle at the interface. The amorphous resin A differs from the amorphous resin B.

Method of producing toner for developing electrostatic images

An object of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic image developing toner including toner particles containing: an amorphous resin including an amorphous vinyl resin; and a crystalline resin, wherein the toner particles contain: a coloring agent including C. I. Pigment Yellow 74; and alkoxy aniline with an amount in the range of 0.1 to 50.0 mass ppm in the toner particles.

Electrostatic image developing toner

Provided is a method of forming an electrophotographic image using a plurality of color toners, the method containing: a charging step; an exposing step; a developing step; and a transferring step, wherein the plurality of color toners each respectively contain toner particles including a binder resin, a coloring agent, a releasing agent, and a crystalline resin; the binder resin contains an amorphous vinyl polymer formed with a vinyl monomer; the toner particles contain the amorphous vinyl polymer in the range of 10 to 90 mass %; and a maximum value of an acid value difference of the color toners is in the range of 1 to 10 mg KOH/g.

Electrophotographic image forming method and full color toner set for developing electrostatic image

Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner containing toner particles having a domain-matrix structure formed with a matrix of an amorphous polyester resin and a domain of a crystalline resin, wherein the toner particles contain an releasing agent and alkoxy aniline; and a content of the alkoxy aniline contained in the toner particles is in the range of 0.1 to 15.0 mass ppm.

An image forming method comprising the step of: forming a toner image employing toner particles containing at least a resin on an image supporting substrate having thereon a toner holding layer via a toner image holding process to form an image print, the toner image being held in the toner holding layer in the toner image holding process, wherein at least the toner particles or the image supporting substrate is separated from the image print via a separation process; and at least the separated toner particles or the separated image supporting substrate is recyclable as an image forming material.

Image forming method and method of recycling image forming material

A method of recycling an image forming material comprising the steps of holding a toner image formed by employing toner particles in a toner holding layer formed on an image supporting substrate to form a first generation image print, separating the toner particles from the first generation image print; and recycling the separated toner particles to form a second generation image print by holding a toner image formed by employing the separated toner particles in a toner holding layer formed on an image supporting substrate, provided that the image forming material comprises at least toner particles, wherein Condition (1) 0.9&#x2267;B/A&#x2267;0.1 and Condition (2) 1&#x2267;C/A&#x2267;0.9 are satisfied, A, B and C representing particle shape factors of original toner particles, toner particles held in the image holding layer of the first generation image print; and separated toner particles, respectively.

Method of recycling image forming material

Disclosed is a manufacturing method of toner which includes at least polyester resin and colorant, comprising the steps of: (A) dissolving, into an organic solvent, the polyester resin and ultrahigh molecular weight styrene resin in which a peak is present in a range larger than 500 thousands and smaller than 3 million in a molecular weight distribution, and preparing a binder resin solution; (B) dispersing the binder resin solution as binder resin solution droplets into an aqueous medium; (C) removing the organic solvent from the binder resin solution droplets, and preparing a resin particle dispersion; and (D) aggregating resin particles from which the organic solvent is removed and colorant particles containing the colorant with each other, and forming toner particles.

Toner manufacturing method

An image forming method using toner comprising toner particles having a core-shell structure comprising a core particle incorporating a viscous material and a shell layer covering the above core particle is disclosed. The method comprises steps of a toner image forming step on a dielectric drum; a first pressure applying step in which the shell layer of the toner particles forming the toner image is subjected to a preliminary break treatment by a first pressure roller, which is arranged in contact with the dielectric drum; and a transfer/fixing step in which a toner image made by the toner particles which have been subjected to a preliminary break treatment by the first pressure applying step is transferred and fixed to an image support by a second pressure roller which is arranged in contact with the dielectric drum.

Image forming method using two pressure steps

An objective is to provide an image forming method by which sufficient fixing strength can be obtained at a low temperature of 120&#xb0; C., excellent print images with no belt-like or streak image defect can be obtained, and no document offsetting is generated even though the superimposed print images are stored. Disclosed is an image forming method comprising the step of fixing a toner image formed with a toner comprising a releasing agent on a transfer material employing a contact-heating fixing device comprising a heating roller and a belt-shaped pressure body, wherein the heating roller is placed on the upper side of the transfer material, the releasing agent comprises the 1releasing agent component and the 2releasing agent component, and the 1releasing agent component has a content of 40-98% by weight, based on the total weight of the 1and 2releasing agent components.

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Hachioji, Japan

Masaharu Matsubara