Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Shigenori Kouno

Ken Ohmura

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Meizo Shirose

Kenji Tsujita

Mitsutoshi Nakamura

Hiroyuki Yamada

Tomomi Oshiba

Yoshiaki Koizumi

Asao Matsushima

Yoshiaki Kobayashi

Akihiko Itami

Kazuyoshi Goan

Kaori Soeda

Takao Yamanouchi

Ito Koga

Michiaki Ishikawa

Mikio Kohyama

Kouichi Sugama

Tomoyasu Umeno

Kazuya Isobe

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 an image print which has a toner-holding layer on an image-supporting substrate in which the toner-holding layer holds a toner image formed by toner particles, wherein the toner-holding layer is composed of a hydrogel having a water content of 10% by mass or more and not more than 90% by mass.

Image print and image forming 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

A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner contains an amount of not less than 0.1% by weight of an element selected from elements of the Groups of 1B, 2B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8, 3A and 4A of the fourth and fifth periodic of the long periodic table of the elements, and the isolation ratio of the element is not more than 10% by number.

Toner and developer for developing electrostatic image and image forming method

The image forming method carries out reverse development with a developer that has a toner prepared by agglomerating resin particles in a water based medium.

Image forming method and image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises developing latent images each formed on a static latent image forming member by serially arranged plural image forming units each including a toner to form toner images, respectively, successively transferring the toner images onto an image support so as to form a piled up image, and fixing the piled up image by a fixing device having a rotatable heating member including a heater fixed therein and a pressing member, and in the method the toner for developing the latent image has a variation coefficient of the shape coefficient of not more than 16% and a number variation coefficient of the particle diameter distribution in number of not more than 27%.

Image forming method

The image forming method uses reverse development to form an image from a toner applied to a latent image on a photoreceptor. The dots that form the latent image have an exposure diameter A (in &mgr;m) while the dots of the toner that form on the latent image have a development diameter B (in &mgr;m). The relationship between the exposure diameter A (in &mgr;m) in the primary scanning direction and the development diameter B (in &mgr;m) in the primary scanning direction of the developed image is: 1.1&lE;B/A&lE;1.5. The toner is prepared by fusing at the resin particles in a water based medium.

Image forming method and image forming apparatus, and electrostatic latent image developing toner used by the same

In an electrostatic image forming method, said electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises a resinous layer comprising siloxane base resin containing a structural unit having charge transport performance and a cross-linked structure on an electrically conductive support, and developer material comprises a toner which is obtained by suspension-polymerizing a polymerizable composition comprised of at least polymerizing monomer and colorant or a toner which is obtained by fusing at least said resin particles in an aqueous medium.

Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and developer material used in said apparatus

Disclosed is a toner for developing electrostatic image, comprising a resin and colorant. The toner has a variation coefficient of shape coefficient of not more than 16 percent and a number variation coefficient in the number particle size distribution of not more than 27 percent. An image forming method employing the toner is also disclosed.

Toner for developing electrostatic image and image forming method

Toner for developing an electrostatic image and a production method thereof, and an image forming method

Disclosed is a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, comprising colored particles containing a colorant and a binder resin, and hydrophobic particles, wherein said colored particles have a BET specific surface area of not less than 5 m.sup.2 /g and said hydrophobic particles satisfy the following relation:

Toner for developing electrostatic latent image developer and method for

Toner for developing electro-static image is disclosed. The toner comprises at least a resin and a colorant, and the resin is composed of a vinyl-based polymer. The component dissolved in tetrahydrofuran (THF) of the resin has a peak molecular weight at the molecular weight region of 5,000 or more and less than 150,000 and at the molecular weight region of 300,000 or more and less than 500,000. The storage elastic module G'.sub.160 at 160.degree. C. of the toner is 500-1200 dyn/cm.sup.2 and loss elastic module G'.sub.160 at 160.degree. C. of the toner is 1500-3000 dyn/cm.sup.2.

Toner for static charge developing and fixing method

A carrier of developer for developing an electrostatic image and a method for producing the carrier are disclosed. The carrier comprises core particles each having a resin layer covering the surface of said core particle. The resin layer is formed by dry process in which the core particles are stirred together with fine resin particles with no solvent for the resin to form the resin layer on the surface of each core particle. The fine resin particles comprise a homopolymer or a copolymer comprising a fluorinated acrylate repeating unit and are formed by emulsified polymerization carried out in the presence of a surfactant comprising an alkylbenzene sulfonic compound, and the residual amount of the surfactant in the fine resin particles is within the range of from 60 ppm to 10,000 ppm. The carrier is improved in adhesion between the surface of the core and the resin layer and satisfactory in friction electricity providing capability.

Carrier for electrostatic image developer and process for the production

There is disclosed an electrostatic image-developing carrier having a resin coat layer with an excellent mechanical strength. The carrier is prepared by repeatedly applying a mechanical impact force to the mixture of the core particle and the coating resin particle in a dry condition, wherein a molecular weight distribution chromatogram according to a gel permeation chromatography of a tetrahydro-furansoluble component in the resin coat layer has at least one peak or shoulder in a molecular weight range 1,000 to 20,000.

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Shigenori Kouno