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| 20090068579 | FULL-COLOR TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR THE SAME - A production method for a full-color toner for electrophotography includes melt-kneading a toner material by use of an open-roll kneader, the toner material containing at least a binder resin, a wax, a colorant, and a charge control agent, wherein Mze/Mzi is 0.3 to 0.7, where Mze is a Z-average molecular weight of a resin component of the toner material to be supplied in the open-roll kneader, and Mzi is a Z-average molecular weight of a resin component of a kneaded product to be discharged from the open-roll kneader, and wherein a zirconium compound of a salicylic acid derivative is used as the charge control agent. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090123857 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a latent electrostatic image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the latent electrostatic image bearing member, at least three developing units each configured to develop the latent electrostatic image using a toner to form a visible image, a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image on a recording medium, and an image fixing unit configured to the transferred image on the recording medium, in which the developing units respectively include any one of a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, the magenta toner includes C.I. pigment red 269, and the yellow toner includes C.I pigment yellow 180 or C.I pigment yellow 155. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090155710 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER AND TONER PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - A method of manufacturing toner including the steps of preparing a preliminary mixture by mixing a colorant and a release agent; preparing a raw material mixture by mixing the preliminary mixture with a binder resin and other raw materials; melt-kneading the raw material mixture using an open system roll type kneader; pulverizing the melt-kneaded raw material mixture into fine particles; and classifying the fine particles to prepare a toner. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100068644 | TONER, AND DEVELOPER - The present invention provides a toner which contains at least a binder resin, and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a polyester resin (A) obtained by polycondensation of an alcohol component with a carboxylic acid component containing one of a purified rosin and a modified rosin, and a polyester resin (B) obtained by polycondensation of a carboxylic acid with an alcohol component containing a specific alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A, and wherein when the carboxylic acid component containing a purified rosin is used in the carboxylic acid component for the polyester resin (A), a mass ratio [(B)/(A)] of the polyester resin (B) to the polyester resin (A) is 2/8 to 6/4. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100136471 | TONER AND DEVELOPER - A toner, wherein a binder resin contains a polyester resin (A) produced by polycondensing an alcohol component with a carboxylic acid component which contains a rosin compound in an amount of 5% by mass or more of the total amount by mass of the alcohol component and the carboxylic acid component, and a polyester resin (B) produced by polycondensing an alcohol component containing an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A represented by General Formula (1) given below with a carboxylic acid component, and wherein the toner contains abietic acid in an amount of 0.01% by mass to 1% by mass: | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110268474 | TONER, DEVELOPER INCLUDING THE TONER, AND DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE TONER - A toner including toner particles including a binder resin containing at least one polyester resin comprising an inorganic tin (II) compound and an external additive including a particulate inorganic material having a volume average particle diameter greater than 70 nm and less than 300 nm. The binder resin preferably includes a polyester resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 5,000 to 50,000 and another resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 200,000 to 400,000. A developer including the toner; and a developing device, an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge, which form toner images using the toner are also provided. | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20110165508 | TONER AND DEVELOPER - A toner containing at least a binder resin, releasing agent, and colorant, wherein the binder resin contains polyester resin (A), polyester resin (B), and polyester resin (C), which is prepared by condensation-polymerizing (i) an alcohol component containing an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol compound and (ii) a carboxylic acid component; at least one of the polyester resin (A) and polyester resin (B) is a polyester resin prepared by condensation-polymerizing (i) the alcohol component substantially composed of only aliphatic alcohol and containing 1,2-propanediol in an amount of 65 mole % or more of a divalent alcohol component and (ii) the carboxylic acid component; and a softening point Tm(A) of the polyester resin (A) is 10 C or more higher than Tm(B) of the polyester resin (B), and the absolute difference between Tm(C) of the polyester resin (C) and the Tm(B) is 5° C. or less. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120009514 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - In the image forming method, at least one color toner image and a transparent toner image are formed using a color developer including a color toner and a carrier and contained in a first developing device, and a second developer including a transparent toner and a carrier and contained in a second developing device. A supplementary developer is supplied at least to the second developing device while discharging excess of the developer in the developing device. The transparent toner includes a lubricant and has a viscoelastic property such that a loss tangent (tan δ), which is defined as a ratio (G″/G′) of loss modulus (G″) to storage modulus (G′), has a peak at a temperature of from 80° C. to 160° C. and the peak has a height of not less than 3. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009518 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - In the image forming method, a color toner image and a transparent toner image are formed using a first developing device containing a first developer including color toner and carrier, and a second developing device containing a second developer including transparent toner and carrier. At least the second developing device includes a developer bearing member bearing the second developer for developing an electrostatic image; a developer supplying passage supplying the developer to the developer bearing member while feeding the developer in a first direction; and a developer feeding passage separated from the developer supplying passage at a central portion thereof and feeding the developer used for development in a direction parallel to the first direction. The transparent toner includes a resin and a lubricant and has viscoelastic property such that loss tangent has a peak with height of not less than 3 at a temperature of from 80° C. to 160° C. | 01-12-2012 |
