High heat transfer fuser roller

In an electrostatographic reproduction apparatus for forming a toner image on a receiver member, a fusing station for fusing said toner image to said receiver member, said fusing station comprising:

• a pressure roller;
• a fuser roller operatively associated with a pressure roller, said fuser roller being elastically deformable and engaged under pressure with said pressure roller so as to form a fusing nip there between, said pressure roller being relatively harder than said fuser roller, said toner image on said receiver member being moved through said fusing nip for said fusing;
• wherein said fuser roller includes a rigid, cylindrical, thermally conductive core member;
• a multilayer deformable annular structure around said core member, said deformable annular structure including an elastomeric base cushion layer innermost around said core member, an high thermal conductivity layer around said base cushion layer, said high thermal conductivity layer comprising a metal having thickness in a range of approximately between 0.002 inches to 0.005 inches, and a thin flexible toner release layer around said high thermal conductivity layer;
• wherein thermal conductivity of said base cushion layer is lower than thermal conductivity of said high thermal conductivity layer;
• and
• wherein the value of thermal conductivity of said high thermal conductivity layer is equal to or greater than 5 BTU/hr/ft/° F.