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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1995
Takashige Kasuya, Sohka, JP;
Noboru Kashimura, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuhiko Chiba, Kamakura, JP;
Kohji Inaba, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electrophotographic toner showing a good fixability onto recording paper is constituted by at least a binder resin and a colorant, the binder resin comprising a resin component having a polar group, the binder resin having a molecular weight distribution according to gel permeation chromatography including a peak in a molecular weight region of 5.times.10.sup.3 -5.times.10.sup.4. The toner is used to develop an electrostatic image formed on a electrophotographic photosensitive member including at least an electroconductive support, a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, and the resultant toner image is transferred onto a recording medium without difficulties such as occurrence of cracks on the photosensitive member or inferior transferability by using a photosensitive member having a surface layer containing a transition metal atom at 0.1-10 ppm. The surface of the photosensitive member may preferably show a fluorine atom/carbon atom (F/C) ratio or/and a silicon atom/carbon atom (Si/C) ratio, respectively, of 0.03-1.0 as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.