A toner for electrostatic image development includes: toner base particles containing at least a nonionic surfactant, a binder resin, and a release agent; and an external additive. The content of the nonionic surfactant is from 0.05% by mass to 1% by mass inclusive based on the total mass of the toner, and the external additive contains particles with an arithmetic mean particle diameter of from 50 nm to 400 nm inclusive. The amount of the external additive released is 5% by mass or less.

A non-impact printing device (301) comprising: a coating material (237) being curable and comprising a resin; the coating material comprising an amorphous resin portion in an amount of at least 30 w-% based on the overall amount of resin and comprising with respect to the entire amount of coating material less than 0.5 w-% of flow additive; a printing unit, in particular an electrophotographic printing unit, being configured for printing the coating material (237) so as to form a coating layer, wherein the coating layer forms at least part of a layer package comprising at least one layer; the non-impact printing device being configured for providing the layer package so as to define a surface structure with the layer package; wherein the surface structure is defined by a thickness variation of the layer package; wherein the thickness variation is in a range between 1 m and 1000 m, in particular in a range between 1 and 300 m, and is in particular more than 1 m, in particular more than 5 m, in particular more than 10 m and in particular more than 20 m.

A toner for electrostatic image development includes: toner base particles containing at least a nonionic surfactant, a binder resin, and a release agent; and an external additive. The content of the nonionic surfactant is from 0.05% by mass to 1% by mass inclusive based on the total mass of the toner. The external additive contains inorganic particles having an arithmetic mean particle diameter of from 50 nm to 400 nm inclusive and an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.8 inclusive.

Provided is a magenta toner which exhibits high image density and chroma, has excellent low-temperature fixability, shelf stability and charging ability, is unlikely to fog, and can be produced at low cost. The magenta toner contains a binder resin and a magenta colorant, wherein the magenta toner contains C.I. Pigment Red 122, C.I. Pigment Violet 19 and a compound A represented by the following general formula (1) as the magenta colorant, and wherein, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, a total of from 3 to 30 parts by mass of the C.I. Pigment Red 122, the C.I. Pigment Violet 19 and the compound A are contained, and a mass ratio of a total content of the C.I. Pigment Red 122 and the C.I. Pigment Violet 19 to a content of the compound A {(PR122+PV19)/the compound A} is from 1 to 20:

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An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit for forming a first image on a sheet using a first toner. The first toner includes at least two fluorochromes which have a fluorescence peak in a wavelength range different from one another. A second image forming unit is configured to form a second image on the sheet using a second toner. The second toner includes a visible colored pigment. A softening point temperature of the first toner, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, is higher than a softening point temperature of the second toner, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry.

Toner comprising a toner particle containing binder resin and colorant, wherein fine particles A (organosilicon polymer particles containing an organosilicon polymer) and fine particles B are present at the toner particle surface, the organosilicon polymer has structure in which Si and O are alternately bonded to each other, portion of Si in the organosilicon polymer has R.sup.1SiO.sub.3/2 structure, and content of the fine particles A, proportion for area of peak originating with silicon having the structure, volume resistivity of the fine particles B, total coverage ratio of the toner particle surface by the fine particles A embedded in the toner particle (A1) and the fine particles A not embedded in the toner particle (A2), percentage for area occupied by the fine particles A2, content of the fine particles B in the toner, and percentage for area occupied by the fine particles B embedded in the toner particle are prescribed range.

A yellow toner is provided. The yellow toner comprises toner particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant, and 1.0% to 15.0% by number of the toner particles have a CH rate of 25.0% or more in absolute value. Here, the CH rate is calculated from the following formula (1):

CH rate (%)=[(I.sub.nI.sub.ave)/I.sub.ave]100Formula (1)

where I.sub.n represents an integrated intensity within a wavenumber region of from 2,750 to 3,250 cm.sup.1 when an intensity at a wavenumber within a wavenumber region of from 950 to 3,250 cm.sup.1 is normalized to 1 in a Raman spectrum of each toner particle; and I.sub.ave represents an average of the I.sub.n.

A coating layer application device (200) for applying a coating layer, which is located on a transfer element, to a substrate, the coating layer (206) being formed from a coating material, in particular a thermosetting coating material, the coating layer (206) being curable and comprising an amorphous material, the coating layer application device comprising: a heating device (214, 220) being configured so as to (i) maintain the temperature of the coating layer (206) within a temperature range before removal of N the transfer element (204) from the coating layer (206), wherein within the temperature range the uncured coating material is in its supercooled liquid state; and/or (ii) partially cure the coating layer (206) during a contact of the coating layer (206) and the substrate (210) and before removal of the transfer element (204) from the coating layer, in particular by increasing the temperature of the coating layer (206) to a temperature at or above a curing temperature of the coating layer (206).

A toner container used in an image forming apparatus including an exposure unit with a light emitting diode light source includes a container body, and a cyan toner stored in the container body. A lightness L*, a hue a*, and a hue b* of the cyan toner in a powder state satisfy

26.94L*34.84,

5.13a*3.83, and

47.47b*36.78.

An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit for forming a first image on a sheet using a first toner. The first toner includes at least two fluorochromes which have a fluorescence peak in a wavelength range different from one another. A second image forming unit is configured to form a second image on the sheet using a second toner. The second toner includes a visible colored pigment. A softening point temperature of the first toner, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, is higher than a softening point temperature of the second toner, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry.