According to various embodiments, a method of forming an image on a fabric and the resulting fabric is disclosed. The method includes providing a printable media including a carrier layer having a first surface comprising a first area and a second surface opposite the first surface. The method includes providing a fabric layer having a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface, the third surface includes a second area. The fabric layer is secured to the carrier layer by the adhesive bonding a first portion of the fourth surface to the first surface. The method includes applying a toner to a first portion of the third surface of the fabric layer. The toner includes antimicrobial nanoparticles on an outer surface of the toner. The method includes fusing the toner to the first portion of the third surface of the fabric layer.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer second charged images superposed with one another onto a holding surface of a recording medium on which at least one first charged image has been electrostatically held and a static eliminating unit disposed upstream from the transfer unit in a transport direction of the recording medium and configured to remove static electricity from the recording medium electrostatically holding the at least one first charged image.

Disclosed is a washable non-toxic body paint including core/shell toner particles having a size of from 4.0 μm to 30 μm, wherein the core comprises a colorant and the shell comprises a polyester resin. The body paint includes an alcohol-free medium of gelatin or glycerin. The body paint can be applied to a skin surface.

A brilliant developer contains a metallic pigment containing pigment particles, a binder resin, and an external additive. A percentage of the pigment particles not less than 2 μm and not more than 4 μm in a volume particle size distribution of a residue separated from a mixture obtained by dissolving the brilliant developer in tetrahydrofuran after removing the external additive from the brilliant developer is not less than 21.5% and not more than 25.3%.

The toner for developing an electrostatic charge image of the present invention contains a toner base particle comprising a binder resin and at least two kinds of organic pigments, and strontium titanate as an external additive.

A white toner having toner particles including: a resin; a BaSO.sub.4 pigment; wherein a particle size is defined as Span=(Dn90−Dn10)/(Dn50); and wherein the BaSO.sub.4 pigment has a wide particle size distribution wherein the Span is 0.75 or greater; and an optional wax. A pulverized (conventional) toner and an emulsion aggregation toner process.

An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, an average thickness of the resin layer is 0.6 μm or more and 1.4 μm or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.

Provided is a toner set for developing an electrostatic charge image, including a first toner and a second toner whose toner matrix particles contain different types of pigments, wherein the first toner matrix particles included in the first toner and the second toner matrix particles included in the second toner both contain at least the pigment and a crystalline resin; and the first toner and the second toner satisfy the following specific Expressions (1A) and (2A),

10≤W.sub.P1−W.sub.P2   Expression (1A)

ΔH.sub.C1/ΔH.sub.C2≤0.15.   Expression (2A)

A white toner for electrostatic image development contains white toner particles that contain a binder resin and a white pigment and satisfy condition 1 below: condition 1: a grain size distribution index GSD.sub.vL of the white toner particles satisfies formula (1) below, and a ratio of a number of white toner particles having a diameter of 3 μm or less to a total number of white toner particles is 1% by number or more and less than 6% by number:
1.2≤GSD.sub.vL(=D.sub.84v/D.sub.50v)≤1.5  formula (1):
(in formula (1), D.sub.84v is a particle diameter at which a cumulative frequency cumulated from a small diameter side in a volume-based particle size distribution is 84%, and D.sub.50v is a particle diameter at which the cumulative frequency cumulated from the small diameter side in the volume-based particle size distribution is 50%).

A unit includes: a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic charge image that is formed on a surface of an image carrier, as a toner image with a developer including a brilliant toner containing a flat brilliant pigment, the developer being accommodated in the developing device; and a fixing device configured to fix the toner image onto a surface of a recording medium at a fixing temperature of 130° C. or higher and 230° C. or lower that includes a fixing belt, a first roller and a second roller that are disposed inside the fixing belt and support the fixing belt while applying tension to the fixing belt, and a pressure roller, the first roller and the pressure roller sandwiching the fixing belt to form a nip portion.