G03G9/0819

ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin, in which in a case where G′1 (90) represents a storage modulus G′ of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 90° C. and a strain of 1%, G′50 (90) represents a storage modulus G′ of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 90° C. and a strain of 50%, and G′50 (180) represents a storage modulus G′ of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 180° C. and a strain of 50%, the electrostatic charge image developing toner satisfies the following Formulas (1) to (4).


G′1(90)<1×10.sup.5  Formula (1)


1×10.sup.3<G′50(180)  Formula (2)


1<G′50(90)/G′50(180)<30  Formula (3)


1<G′1(90)/G′50(90)<10  Formula (4)

TONER COMPOSITIONS AND ADDITIVES

Disclosed herein is a toner composition, developer and additive for a toner composition. The toner composition includes toner particles comprising at least one resin, an optional colorant, an optional wax, and a polymeric toner additive on at least a portion of an external surface of the toner particles. The polymeric toner additive includes a polymeric resin comprising a cross-linked fluorinated acrylic monomer, a cross-linkable monomer containing two or more vinyl groups at 8 wt% to 40 wt% of the polymeric resin, and optionally a charge control agent comprising nitrogen containing group at 0.1 wt% to 1.5 wt% of the polymeric resin.

Electrophotographic apparatus and process cartridge

The electrophotographic apparatus and process cartridge comprising an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a cleaning blade, and developing unit containing a toner, wherein the cleaning blade comprising a support member and an elastic member whose portion is abutting a surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member; the elastic member has an elastic modulus of 15 to 470 MPa with coefficient of variation for the elastic modulus being not more than 7.0%, and the absolute value of a difference between Martens hardness values is not more than 0.30 N/mm.sup.2 as measured under prescribed conditions; the toner contains a toner particle and an external additive whose a number-average primary particle diameter is from 5 to 25 nm, when X1 is a coverage ratio of the toner particle by the external additive and X2 is a theoretical coverage ratio, X1 is 50 to 85 area %, and X1/X2≥−0.0042×X1+0.60 is satisfied.

ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles, and an external additive that contains particles A containing a perovskite-type compound and having an equivalent circle diameter of 15 nm or greater and 90 nm or less and particles B containing a perovskite-type compound and having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 μm or greater and 3.0 μm or less, in which the particles B occupy 0.3% by number or greater and 3.5% by number or less of an entirety of the toner particles.

TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles having an average circularity Cc of 0.80 or more and less than 0.98, and an external additive containing monodisperse silica particles and titanate compound particles, in which a ratio Rt/Rs of an average primary particle diameter Rt of the titanate compound particles to an average primary particle diameter Rs of the monodisperse silica particles is 0.50 or more and 3.50 or less, and a ratio A/B of an external additive coverage A (%) of the monodisperse silica particles on surfaces of the toner particles to an external additive coverage B (%) of the titanate compound particles on the surfaces of the toner particles satisfies formula (1): 0<A/B≤2.00.

TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles having an average circularity Cc of 0.98 or more; and external additives including monodisperse silica particles having an average diameter of primary particles of 20 nm or more and 70 nm or less and titanate particles having an average diameter of primary particles of 20 nm or more and 70 nm or less, wherein the absolute difference between the average diameter of primary particles of the monodisperse silica particles and the average diameter of primary particles of the titanate particles is 25 nm or less.

ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin, a release agent, a divalent metal, and a trivalent metal, in which the release agent has a domain diameter of 0.5 μm or greater and 1.5 μm or less.

PRESSURE SENSITIVE TONER, APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PRINTED MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED MATERIAL, AND PRINTED MATERIAL

A pressure sensitive toner includes toner particles containing a composite resin that includes a styrene-based resin and a (meth)acrylate-based resin. The difference between a lowest glass transition temperature of the composite resin and a highest glass transition temperature thereof is 30° C. or more, and the toner particles have a gel fraction of from 1.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass inclusive.

TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

A toner for electrostatic charge image development has toner particles containing a binder resin including 90 mass % or more of an amorphous resin. In a differential molecular weight distribution curve of tetrahydrofuran soluble matter as measured by gel permeation chromatography, the toner has a maximum peak Ma in a molecular weight range of 2,500 or more and 8,000 or less, a minimum value Mm in a molecular weight range of more than 8,000 and less than 280,000, and a maximum peak Mb in a molecular weight range of 280,000 or more and 900,000 or less. When the area of the differential molecular weight distribution curve in a range of a molecular weight of 100 or more and less than the minimum value Mm is defined as A, and the area of the differential molecular weight distribution curve in a range of the minimum value Mm or more and a molecular weight of 10,000,000 or less is defined as B, the area ratio A/B is 5.5 or more and 10 or less.

ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles, silica particles that are added to an exterior of the toner particles, and titanic acid compound particles that are added to the exterior of the toner particles and have an average circularity of 0.890 or more and 0.950 or less, in which the silica particles include particles having a primary particle size of 80 nm or less, the particles having a primary particle size of 80 nm or less have at least one peak in a range of 20 nm or more and less than 80 nm in a number-based primary particle size distribution curve (hereinafter, silica particles having such a peak will be called “specific silica particles”), the titanic acid compound particles have at least one peak in a range of 20 nm or more and less than 80 nm in a number-based primary particle size distribution curve, a difference between an average circularity of the specific silica particles and the average circularity of the titanic acid compound particles is 0.05 or less, and a difference between a toner coverage of the specific silica particles and a toner coverage of the titanic acid compound particles is 20% points or less.