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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2018
Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming method uses a color toner including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner, and a black toner. The image forming method includes a toner image forming step of forming a toner image by developing the color toner on an electrostatic latent image formed by charging and exposing a surface of an electrostatic latent image bearing member, a transfer step of transferring the toner image onto a recording medium to form a color toner image, and a fixing step of fixing the color toner image on the recording medium. Each toner contain at least a binder resin, a coloring agent, a release agent, and a layered silicate compound. The volume average particle diameter of each toner is 4 to 6 μm. The content of the aluminum element in each toner represented by the Net intensity by WDXRF analysis has a specific relationship.