32results about How to "Improve low-temperature fixability" patented technology

A toner which is negatively charged to develop an electrostatic latent image is provided that contains a colorant; and a binder resin, wherein the toner has an acid value of from 5 to 20 mg KOH / g and an amine value of from 0.5 to 10 mg KOH / g.

The present invention provides a toner containing at least a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains at least a polyester resin (A) having a softening point Tm(A) of 120° C. to 160° C., a polyester resin (B) having a softening point Tm(B) of 80° C. or more and less than 120° C. and a composite resin (C) containing a condensation polymerization monomer and an addition polymerization monomer, at least any one of the polyester resins (A) and (B) is a polyester resin prepared by condensation-polymerizing an alcohol component substantially composed of only aliphatic alcohol with a carboxylic acid component, and 65% or more of the alcohol component is 1,2-propanediol.

A toner for electrophotography, which is prepared by a method including dissolving or dispersing a toner composition including at least a binder resin, or binder resin and a binder resin precursor as a resin component; and a colorant in an organic solvent to form an oil phase; emulsifying or dispersing the oil phase in an aqueous medium to form an emulsion dispersion comprising emulsified particles; converging the emulsified particles to granulate mother toner particles, including controlling a temperature of the emulsion dispersion to control a circularity of the mother toner particles; and removing the organic solvent, wherein the resin component includes a crystalline resin in an amount not less than 50% by weight, and the mother toner particles have an average circularity of from 0.940 to 0.980.

An object of the present invention is to provide a toner excellent in durability and storage stability, and having good fixing performance in a wide fixing temperature region even at a high process speed. According to the present invention, there is provided a toner containing: a binder resin; a colorant; and a polyester resin, in which: I) the polyester resin contains at least, as a main component, polyester obtained by subjecting a monomer composition containing an alcohol selected from aliphatic diols each having 2 to 22 carbon atoms and a carboxylic acid selected from aliphatic dicarboxylic acids each having 2 to 22 carbon atoms to a polycondensation reaction; and II) a region having a lamellar structure is present at a surface layer of the toner.

Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle containing: a binder resin; a pigment; a resin having an acidic functional group; and a fixing auxiliary agent, wherein the pigment is a pigment having a structure derived from a basic compound, and the binder resin and the fixing auxiliary agent satisfy following Formula (1):(TgA−TgB)≧5.0° C.  Formula (1)and given HP1 as a hydrophobic parameter of the resin having an acidic functional group and HP2 as a hydrophobic parameter of the fixing auxiliary agent, the HP1 is at least 0.60, and following Formula (2) is satisfied:|HP1−HP2|≦0.30  Formula (2).

A toner used for electrostatic latent image development which is excellent in fixing separability with maintaining sufficient low temperature fixability even in a high-speed machine and is also superior in crashing resistance, comprising toner particles, each comprising a core particle and a shell layer provided on the surface of the core particle, wherein the core particle comprises a binder resin containing a styrene-acrylic resin and a first styrene-acrylic modified polyester, and the shell comprises a second styrene-acrylic modified polyester resin.

The invention relates to styrene-acrylic copolymer resin with good low-temperature fixation and a preparation method thereof; the styrene-acrylic copolymer resin with good low-temperature fixation isprepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 10-80 parts of polymer intermediate resin A, 20-70 parts of copolymer intermediate resin B and 1-10 parts of a copolymer resin intermediate C. According to the invention, a compound containing two double bonds is used as a molecular weight regulator, so that Ts is properly reduced and the low-temperature photographic fixing performanceis improved on the premise of keeping Tg and good electrical properties of styrene-acrylic copolymer resin; a solution polymerization mode is used, so that the styrene-acrylic copolymer resin is safe,reliable and stable in quality; the finished product is solid powder, is convenient to store and transport and cannot form hazardous wastes; compared with conventional styrene-acrylic resin, the carbon powder prepared from the resin has obvious advantages in the aspect of low-temperature fixation.

A toner comprising a toner particle having a binder resin, a wax and a colorant, and metal titanate fine particles having a perovskite crystal structure, wherein in cross section observation of the toner using a transmission electron microscope, when a proportion of an area occupied by the wax in a surface layer region from the surface of the toner particle to a depth of 1.0 μm is denoted by As, the As is from 5.0% to 30.0%, and a number average particle diameter of primary particles of the metal titanate fine particles is from 10 nm to 80 nm.

Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic image which is excellent in shelf stability, and is further excellent in low-temperature fixability so as to be capable of maintaining a high fixing rate even at a low fixing temperature.A toner for developing electrostatic image is used which comprises colored resin particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a parting agent, wherein the parting agent is an aliphatic hydrocarbon polymer obtained by polymerizing an aliphatic hydrocarbon monomer.

A binder resin composition which can sharply, but reversibly, melt and solidify within a narrow temperature range, a toner composition of enhanced low-temperature fixability and durability having the binder resin composition, and a preparation method thereof. The binder resin composition of the toner includes a first polymer compound having a proton donor site in a main chain, and a second polymer compound having a proton acceptor site in a main chain.

A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, the storage elastic modulus Gt′ (150) of the toner at 150° C. is at least 1.0×104 Pa, the binder resin contains a polymer A having a first monomer unit derived from a first polymerizable monomer and a second monomer unit derived from a second polymerizable monomer different from the first polymerizable monomer, the first polymerizable monomer is selected from specific (meth)acrylic acid esters, the contents of the first monomer unit and second monomer unit in the polymer A are within specific ranges, and the SP values of the first monomer unit and second monomer unit are within specific ranges.

A toner contains toner particles having a surface layer containing an organosilicon polymer.The organosilicon polymer has a particular partial structure. The surface layer has a particular average thickness Dav. The ratio of silicon ions to carbon ions emitted from the toner particles in response to irradiation of the toner particles with primary ions in mapping measurement by FIB-TOF-SIMS is specified.

The present invention is to provide a toner for developing electrostatic images having a low minimum fixing temperature, and high hot offset resistance and high heat-resistant shelf stability, and a method for producing the toner. Also, the present invention is to provide a toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent and a retention aid, wherein the retention aid is a copolymer of 70 to 98% by weight styrene and 2 to 30% by weight (meth)alkyl acrylate, and the copolymer has a glass transition temperature of 5 to 60° C.

A developing agent contains a toner particle having a substantially spherical polymer phase selected from any one of acrylic bases, styrene bases or styrene-acrylic bases and a polyester based resin phase to coat the polymer phase such that at least a part thereof is exposed. It becomes possible to improve the low temperature fixability, by using the developing agent.

Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.

The invention discloses special bronze red ink powder for official document printing and a preparation method thereof. The special bronze red ink powder is composed of the following components in masspercentage content: 62-85% of polyester resin, 3.5-10% of a bronze red pigment, 0.5-3% of a dispersant, 1-8% of a curing agent, 3-10% of wax, 0.5-5% of a charge control agent, 0.5-3% of a light stabilizing agent and 1-4 parts of an external additive. The bronze red ink powder disclosed by the invention can realize the printing of official documents on a red-black double-color printer, red characters and stamps of the printed products has a bright and brilliant bronze red hue. The bronze red ink powder prepared by adopting the physical method is mature in production process, safe and environment-friendly in production process and suitable for industrial production.

An electrostatic image developing toner including a toner particle, wherein the toner particle contains a vinyl resin which is a polymer of a vinyl monomer having an acid group, a polyester resin, at least one of aluminum (Al) and magnesium (Mg), and tin (Sn), and when net intensities of Al, Mg and Sn in the toner particle measured by fluorescent X-ray analysis are respectively expressed as IAl, IMg and ISn, a ratio (IAl+IMg) / ISn is within a range of 0.5 to 2.5.

Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner incorporating toner mother particles containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline resin; and the toner mother particles have a region (A) including a structure a formed with the releasing agent and the crystalline resin being in contact with each other, and a region (B) in which the crystalline resin forms a lamellar crystalline structure b independently existing without contacting with the releasing agent.

Provided is an external additive having a resin particle containing a crystalline resin, and an inorganic fine particle containing a metal atom, the inorganic fine particle being embedded in the resin particle, wherein part of the inorganic fine particle being exposed on a surface of the resin particle, the maximum endothermic peak temperature of the external additive during a first temperature rise is from 50.0° C. to 120° C., the shape factor SF-2 of the external additive is from 110 to 150, and the external additive satisfies following formulae (1) and (2) below, in which Za (mass%) is the percentage content of a metal atom contained in the inorganic fine particle on the surface of the external additive in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Zb (mass%) is the percentage content of the metal atom in thermogravimetric analysis of the external additive,Za>15  (1), andZa / Zb≥0.7  (2)

A toner includes a toner particle containing a resin component including a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin. In a cross-sectional observation of the toner particle, a domain-matrix structure which comprises a matrix containing the crystalline resin and domains containing the amorphous resin is observed. The maximum endothermic peak temperature Tm of the toner determined by DSC is 50° C. to 80° C. When the storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature 5° C. lower than Tm is G′(−5) (Pa), and the storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature 5° C. higher than Tm is G′(+5) (Pa), G′(−5) and G′(+5) satisfy inequality (1), and when the maximum loss tangent of the toner in a temperature range of from 50° C. to 130° C. is tan δ (Max), tan δ (Max) satisfies inequality (2).

The present invention provides a toner which can properly ensure elasticity and viscosity after transiting fixing nip, can improve surface smoothness of the fixing surface, fixing strength of a toner and transparency, low temperature fixing ability, and can prevent fattening of characters by using dynamic viscoelastic characteristics more conformable for actual toner behavior in fixation by heating, further provides an image-forming apparatus capable of forming a high quality image while enhancing low temperature fixing ability, realizing oil-less fixation and preventing offset of a toner.

A resin in a liquid developer contains 80 mass % or more of a urethane-modified polyester resin. A component derived from a polyester resin contains a constitutional unit derived from an acid component and a constitutional unit derived from an alcohol component. A ratio of a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic monomer occupied in the constitutional unit derived from the acid component and the constitutional unit derived from the alcohol component is not lower than 90 mass %. Relation of |Tm1−Tm5|≧20° C. (70° C.≦Tm1≦170° C., 60° C.≦Tm5≦120° C.) is satisfied, where Tm1 (° C.) represents a softening temperature T1 / 2 of toner particles measured with a flow tester under a load of 1 kg and Tm5 (° C.) represents a softening temperature T1 / 2 of toner particles measured with a flow tester under a load of 5 kg.

An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin and a release agent, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The external additive B is an aggregate of two or more particles. The toner particles have an average circularity of 0.8 or more and 0.94 or less. The amount of the release agent present at the surface of the toner particles is 5 area % or more and 30 area % or less based on the total surface area of the toner particles.

A toner comprises a toner particle comprising a resin A and a resin B, wherein the resin A has a structure represented by a predetermined general formula, and the resin B has a monomer unit represented by a predetermined general formula, and a toner manufacturing method comprises a step of dispersing a toner base particle comprising the resin B in an aqueous medium to obtain a toner slurry, and a step of adding a radical polymerization initiator and a monomer composition comprising a monomer represented by a predetermined general formula to the resulting toner slurry to form the resin A on a surface of the toner base particle.