Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tsunemi Sugiyama

Hiroshi Yamashita

Shigeru Emoto

Masami Tomita

Yohichiroh Watanabe

Takuya Saito

Ryota Inoue

Toshiki Nanya

Akinori Saitoh

Masahiro Ohki

Chiaki Tanaka

Shinichiro Yagi

Shinichi Wakamatsu

Hiroaki Matsuda

Kazuhito Watanabe

Junichi Awamura

Yasuaki Iwamoto

Hiroshi Nakai

Hiroshi Yamada

Naohiro Watanabe

Masahide Yamada

Masanori Suzuki

Tadao Takigawa

Hiroto Higuchi

Akemi Sugiyama

Shinji Ohtani

Fumihiro Sasaki

Osamu Uchinokura

Naohito Shimota

Tomomi Suzuki

Kumi Hasegawa

Eiji Sawamura

Takayuki Yoshii

Kazuyuki Hirai

Kazushige Yasumatsu

Satoshi Mochizuki

Takeshi Takada

Takayuki Koike

Tadao Takikawa

Sonoh Matsuoka

Hiroshi Yamasita

Kazushige Sanyo Chemical Ind Ltd Yasumatsu

Kazuyuki Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd Hirai

A toner composition including toner particles, wherein the toner particles are prepared by a method in which toner constituents including at least a binder resin and a colorant are kneaded upon application of heat to prepare a toner constituent mixture; the toner constituent mixture is dissolved or swelled in an organic solvent capable of dissolving or swelling at least the binder resin to prepare an oil phase liquid; the oil phase liquid is emulsified in an aqueous liquid to prepare an emulsion; the emulsion is coagulated; and then the coagulated emulsion is dried to prepare the toner particles.

Toner composition and method for manufacturing the toner composition

A toner is provided including a binder resin and a wax having primarily C&#x2014;H and C&#x2014;C bonds, and having a melting point of 50 to 90&#xb0; C., wherein the wax is present in a surface portion of the toner in an amount of from 0.1 to 4.0% by weight, wherein the amount of the wax is determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR); and the use of the toner in an image forming method, image forming apparatus, developer and toner cartridge containing the toner.

Toner, developer, image forming method, image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and toner container

Toner and a developer which are excellent in cleaning property and fixing property at low temperature, and capable of forming images with high quality are provided, along with a method for their production. A toner producing method involves dispersing and/or emulsifying an oil phase or a monomer phase containing a toner composition and/or a toner composition precursor in a water-based medium to granulate, wherein the toner has an average circularity of 0.925 to 0.970, and the toner composition and/or the toner composition precursor has a layered inorganic material in which at least a part of interlayer ions in the layered inorganic material has been exchanged with organic ions.

Toner, vessel with the toner, developer, image forming apparatus and process cartridge and image forming method

Toner and a developer which are excellent in cleaning property and fixing property at low temperature, and capable of forming images with high quality are provided. A toner prepared by dispersing and/or emulsifying an oil phase or a monomer phase comprising a toner composition and/or a toner composition precursor in a water-based medium to granulate, wherein the toner has an average circularity of 0.925 to 0.970, and the toner composition and/or the toner composition precursor has a layered inorganic material in which at least a part of interlayer ions in the layered inorganic material has been exchanged with organic ions.

A dry toner for developing an electrostatic image, including a toner binder containing a urea-modified polyester. The toner has an average sphericity of 0.96 or more and contains no more than 30% by weight of particles having a sphericity of less than 0.95.

Dry toner and method of preparing same

There are provided: a method for producing a toner containing to granulate a toner and to subjecting the granulated toner to at least washing with an alkali washing solution, in which the total organic carbon amount extractable from the alkali-washed toner is 200 ppm/g or less; a toner comprising polyester in which the total organic carbon amount extractable from the toner is 200 ppm/g or less, under the condition that the toner is subjected to washing with the alkali washing solution before extracting; and an image-forming method using such a toner.

Toner and method for producing the same, and image-forming method using the same

To provide a toner containing an ethyl acetate-soluble polyester component and an ethyl acetate-insoluble polyester component, wherein the toner is granulated in an aqueous medium, the ethyl acetate-insoluble polyester component is obtained by elongating and/or cross-linking a modified polyester resin during granulating and/or after granulating, the modified polyester resin is produced by condensation polymerization of an acid component and at least one type of diol compound selected from aliphatic diol and alicyclic diol in the presence of a catalyst, and the mass average molecular weight of the modified polyester resin is 10,000 to 100,000.

Toner and developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method using the same

A method of preparing a toner in an aqueous medium, including:

Electrophotographic toner and method of preparing the toner

A toner is provided including a binder resin including at least one polyester resin in an amount of from 50 to 100% by weight, and a colorant having a specific formula, wherein the toner has a shape factor SF-1 of from 120 to 150 and a shape factor SF-2 of from 125 to 180; and a developer using the toner.

Toner and developer using the toner

A toner composition including toner particles including a binder resin including a modified polyester resin, and a second resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 10,000; a colorant; a release agent; and a particulate material which is present at least a surface portion of the toner particles while embedded into the surface portion, wherein the binder resin has a glass transition temperature not lower than 35&#xb0; C. and lower than 55&#xb0; C., and wherein the particulate material has an average particle diameter of from 0.002 to 0.2 times that of the toner particles. A developer including the toner composition and a carrier having a layer thereon which includes at least an acrylic resin and a silicone resin, and a method for fixing an image of the toner composition are also provided.

Toner, developer including the toner, and method for fixing toner image

An image-fixing method contains: passing a recording medium bearing an image through a nip between two or more fixing members to fix the image onto the recording medium; and ejecting the recording medium along with the fixing member contacting with a non-image-bearing surface of the recording medium, wherein the fixing member contacting with an image-bearing surface of the recording medium has a lower surface hardness than that of the fixing member contacting with the non-image-bearing surface, the image is comprised of a toner containing toner particles, each toner particle contains wax having an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain, and polyester resin having an aromatic ring, a total amount of the wax in the toner particle is 1 to 20 mass %, determined by DSC, an amount of the wax located in the specific region of the toner particle is 0.05 to 0.40 that is an intensity ratio (P/P) determined by FTIR-ATR, and the wax is partially or entirely encapsulated in the toner particle as dispersed particles.

Image-fixing method and image-fixing device, and, image-forming method and image-forming apparatus

The object of the present invention is to provide a toner having a uniform composition of toner materials among toner particles, excelling in charge stability, enabling high-quality images without substantially causing fog and toner scattering, and having a small diameter and a narrow particle size distribution. The present invention also provides an effective production method of the toner, and an image forming method and the like using the toner. For this end, the present invention provides a method for producing a toner in which a dissolved and dispersed solution of toner materials is dispersed as dispersion particles in an aqueous medium containing no organic resin fine particles to prepare an oil droplet-in-water dispersion, and organic resin fine particles are added to the oil droplet-in-water dispersion to thereby granulate a toner in the presence of the organic resin fine particles.

Toner and production method of the same, and image forming method

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