Fluorescing highlights can be provided in selected portions of non-color image areas of a printed toner image using fused fluorescing dry toner particles, such as fused fluorescing magenta or fused fluorescing yellow dry toner particles. Before fixing, each fluorescing dry toner particle comprises a polymeric binder phase and a fluorescing colorant that emits at one or more .sub.max wavelengths of at least 420 nm and up to and including 690 nm and that is dispersed within the polymeric binder phase. The resulting printed color images and fluorescent highlights can be provided on receiver materials of various types to accentuate or emphasize the printed color images with a variety of light-colored fluorescent shading.

Described are primer coatings, overprint varnishes, and seaming solution solutions for application to substrates such as those used to make wrap around and sleeve labels, particularly shrink wrap labels, which are used to label containers. The labels can be digitally printed with or without lane priming. With certain seaming solutions, the labels can be removed in the wash stage to enable the recycling of containers.

An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support, an undercoat layer formed directly on the support, and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer, wherein when an ionization potential of the undercoat layer is represented by IPu, the IPu is 6.0 eV or higher, when an ionization potential of the support is represented by IPs, the IPs is lower than the IPu, the undercoat layer contains a compound (), when an ionization potential of the compound () is represented by IP, the IP is 5.0 eV or higher and 5.4 eV or lower, and the IPs and the IP satisfy the following relational expression (1):

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}\mathrm{IPs}\mathrm{IP}-1..& \left(1\right)\end{array}$

An electrophotographic apparatus including: an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a developing unit, which includes a toner, and which is configured to develop an electrostatic latent image with the toner to form a toner image on a surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member; and a cleaning unit configured to remove a residual toner remaining on the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member after the toner image is transferred from the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member onto a transfer material, wherein the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is formed of amorphous silicon carbide, wherein a Si atom density in a region in the vicinity of the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member from the surface to a depth of 100 nm is 1.010.sup.22 atoms/cm.sup.3 or less, and wherein the toner contains a toner particle that contains a polyester resin having a polyethylene terephthalate segment and an inorganic fine particle.

There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a multi-layered article including a finished outer surface optionally having particular surface properties. The article can be a self-supported strip having a smooth outer surface. The method is, for example, suitable for the preparation of multi-layered articles such as a flexible intermediate transfer member (ITM) for use in an indirect printing system. Uses of such articles are also disclosed.

An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate, an intermediate layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer provided on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer contains a specific polyamide resin and specific inorganic particles. The specific inorganic particles each include a metal oxide particle and a surface treatment layer covering at least a part of the surface of the metal oxide particle. The surface treatment layers contain a component derived from an organic siloxane compound and at least one of aluminum oxide and silica. The specific polyamide resin includes a first repeating unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid with a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 20 and a second repeating unit derived from a diamine compound with a cycloalkane structure.

Provided are a recording paper having not only excellent appearance and high adhesion between a substrate and a resin coating but also high adhesion, particularly, high water resistant adhesion to ink or toner in various printing systems and a method for producing the recording paper. The recording paper of the present invention includes: a substrate composed of a thermoplastic resin film; and a resin coating disposed on at least one side of the substrate, wherein the resin coating contains a resin that is a reaction product of a cationic water-soluble polymer and a silane coupling agent, a content of a silane coupling agent component is 15 to 35 mass % based on a cationic water-soluble polymer component in the resin coating, and the resin coating is free from thermoplastic resin particles.

An electrophotographic belt includes a base layer containing a binder resin and carbon black in the binder resin. The binder resin contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of PEEK and PPS. A water content calculated by ((X2X1)/X2)100 is 0.6% where X1 is a mass of a specimen cut out of the base layer when in a nitrogen atmosphere a temperature of the specimen is increased from 30 C. to 100 C. at a rate of 20 C./min. and maintained at 100 C. for 30 min, and X2 is a mass of the specimen when in a nitrogen atmosphere the specimen is thereafter cooled from 100 C. to 30 C. at a rate of 20 C./min. and the specimen is left to stand in the air under an environment of a temperature of 23 C. and a relative humidity of 50% for 48 hours.

A developing apparatus including: a toner having a toner particle and an external additive; a toner carrying member used for carrying the toner; and a charging member used for injecting charge into the toner, in which the external additive includes a fine particle A and a fine particle B, the fine particle A is at least one fine particle selected from a group consisting of a silica fine particle and a silicone fine particle, the fine particle B is a specific conductive fine particle, the toner carrying member is a developing roller having: a substrate having an outer surface having conductivity; and a resin layer on the outer surface of the substrate, and impedance of the outer surface of the developing roller and a maximum value of electric potential of the outer surface are in specific ranges.