Method of producing an electrostatic charge image developing toner

Abstract

A pulverized starting material is supplied quantitatively from a quantitative feederto a first mechanical pulverizerwhere the material is pulverized moderately, the resulting moderately pulverized material is supplied quantitatively from a quantitative feederto a second mechanical pulverizerwhere the material is finely pulverized, and the resulting finely pulverized material is introduced into a coarse-powder classifierto classify coarse powder not smaller than a predetermined particle diameter. The finely pulverized material from which the coarse powder was removed by classification is further classified fine powder not larger than a predetermined size by a fine-powder classifierto produce a classified product, while the separated classified coarse powder is introduced into a returning-powder feeder. The classified coarse powder introduced into the returning-powder feederis again supplied quantitatively to the second mechanical pulverizer, upon which when it is detected that the weight of the coarse powder stored in the returning-powder feederis deviated from a predetermined range, the amount of the returning powder supplied to the second mechanical pulverizeris changed and regulated such that the powder is supplied in the above changed amount. The pulverization conditions in the first and second mechanical pulverizers are established such that the volume-average particle diameter D1 (μm) of the moderately pulverized material obtained by the first mechanical pulverizerand the volume-average particle diameter D2 (μm) of the finely pulverized material obtained by the second mechanical pulverizer satisfy: 3 μm≦D1−D2 ≦6 μm.