Toner, image forming method and apparatus using the toner, and container containing the toner
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTomio Kondou, Hachiro Tosaka, Hitoshi Ueda, Tomiaki Ito
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Abstract
A toner having a half melting temperature not greater than 115 ° C. has good fixability without filming, even in an image forming method using a non-contact fixing method; has good fixability and color reproducibility, even in an image forming method reproducing multi-colored images by combining two or more toner layers of different color; has good heat resistance without impairing fixability and color reproducibility; and produces high quality images without impairing fixability and color reproducibility.
Claims14
A toner having a half melting temperature not greater than 115° C.
An image forming method comprising:
- charging at least one electrostatic latent image bearer;
- irradiating the electrostatic latent image bearer with light to form at least one electrostatic latent image on the electrostatic latent image bearer;
- developing the at least one electrostatic latent image with at least two toners, to form at least one toner image on the at least one electrostatic latent image bearer;
- transferring the at least one toner image onto a receiving material;
- and
- fixing the at least one toner image on the receiving material by a non-contact fixing method;
- wherein:
- the toners have respective half melting temperatures not greater than 115° C.;
- and
- a temperature difference between the respective half melting temperatures is not greater than 10° C.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.