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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2002
Hiroyuki Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Meizo Shirose, Tokyo, JP;
Shigenori Kouno, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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%.