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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Hiroaki Obata, Tokyo, JP;
Natsuko Fujisaki, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Anju Hori, Tokyo, JP;
Kishio Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Obata, Tokyo, JP;
Natsuko Fujisaki, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Anju Hori, Tokyo, JP;
Kishio Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming method that can obtain a high fixing strength and reduce the occurrence of a document offset phenomenon is provided. In the image forming method the polyester resin forming the binder resin of the toner is obtained by condensing and polymerizing a carboxylic component containing at least one compound selected from chemical formula (1), (2) and (3) shown below that is an addition reactant of abietic acid and a carboxylic compound having an unsaturated double bond and an alcohol component, and the content of at least the one compound selected from the chemical formula (1), (2) and (3) in the carboxylic component is 5% by mass or more, and the fixing agent contains an alkylene carbonate which may have a substituent group or an aliphatic alkyl carboxylic acid ester which may have a substituent group.