Provided is a toner for development of electrostatic images comprising colored resin particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, a charge control agent, and a release agent, wherein the colored resin particles have a storage modulus G′ (60) at 60° C. of 1.0×10.sup.8 to 5.0×10.sup.8 Pa, a storage modulus G′ (100) at 100° C. of 8.0×10.sup.4 to 2.3×10.sup.5 Pa, and a storage modulus G′ (150) at 150° C. of 1.4×10.sup.4 to 3.0×10.sup.4 Pa, these storage moduli being determined by dynamic viscoelastic analysis.

The present invention is directed to providing a toner having no environmental difference in charging performance, and having high stability of images after output of a large number of copies under environments at high temperature and high humidity in a higher-speed one-component developing system, and a method for producing the toner, and the toner comprises a toner particle including a toner base particle containing a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent; and a resin particle adhering to the surface of the toner base particle, wherein the resin particle contains a resin A, and the resin A has an ionic functional group and an acid dissociation constant pKa of 7.0 or more and 9.0 or less, and the resin A has a monovalent group a represented by Formula (1): ##STR00001##

Provided is a toner including toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin, a colorant, a releasing agent and a crystalline polyester, wherein in an observation of a cross-section each of the toner particles by transmission electron microscopy, specific toner particles each of which has domains of the crystalline polyester and domains of the releasing agent, are present at a ratio of at least 70% by number of the toner particles in the toner, an arithmetic mean of maximum diameters of the domains of the releasing agent is within prescribed range, and the specific toner particles satisfy prescribed conditions.

A toner is provided. The toner comprises toner base particles, resin particles adhered to surfaces of the toner base particles, and an external additive adhered to the surfaces of the toner base particles. The toner base particles each comprising a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax. The toner has a storage elastic modulus G′ of 4.0×10.sup.5 or less at 70° C. An embedment degree of the external additive is from 15% to 40%, as the embedment degree is measured by stirring 10 g of the toner and 20 g of a carrier in a 50-mL vial at 67 Hz for 60 minutes using a rocking mill.

According to one example of the present application, there is provided a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, containing: a toner particle containing a binder resin; a particle adhering to a surface of the toner particle; and an elastomer particle containing one or more kinds of oil, wherein a volume particle size distribution index GSD.sub.T (D50.sub.T/D16.sub.T) on a small diameter side of the toner particle and a volume particle size distribution index GSD.sub.E (D50.sub.E/D16.sub.E) on a small diameter side of the elastomer particle satisfy Formula (1):
GSD.sub.E/GSD.sub.T≧1.  Formula (1):

A toner includes toner particles, each including: a toner base particle including a binder resin, a colorant, and wax; and resin particles on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein Formulae 1 to 3 below are satisfied, where M is a volume average primary particle diameter (nm) of the resin particles, and L is a distance (nm) between the resin particles present next to one another on the surface of the toner base particle:

M<L;  (Formula 1)

5 (nm)<M≤60 (nm); and  (Formula 2)

0.40≤[M (nm)/L (nm)]<0.90.  (Formula 3)

There is provided a toner comprising a binder resin, a wax, a charge control resin and a colorant. As a result of gas chromatography analysis, a first total amount of components detected in a range of a peak detecting time of hydrocarbons having 5 to 9 carbons is 500 ppm or less in terms of styrene; a second total amount of components detected in a range of a peak detecting time of hydrocarbons having 10 to 18 carbons is 5,000 ppm or less in terms of styrene; and an amount of a component corresponding to a maximum peak of peaks of hydrocarbons having 10 to 18 carbons is 3,000 ppm or less in terms of styrene.

An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two vinyl compounds including a compound represented by the following formula (1). The toner contains a ring unopened oxazoline group in an amount of at least 0.10 μmol/g and no greater than 100 μmol/g.

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An external additive for a toner includes: a particulate of a polymerization product of at least one silicon compound selected from a silane compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: Si(OR.sup.1).sub.4 (wherein R.sup.1 is a C1 to C6 monovalent hydrocarbon group) and a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof. The particulate has the following properties: a number average particle diameter of about 50 nm to about 250 nm, a first specific surface area (a) measured by a gas adsorption method of about 13 m.sup.2/g to about 80 m.sup.2/g, and true density measured by a nominal volume expansion method of about 1.9 g/cm.sup.3 to about 2.1 g/cm.sup.3.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing crosslinked resin particles having a glass transition temperature of 55° C. or higher in a surface layer of the toner particle, and silica particles having a volume average particle diameter of 30 nm to 300 nm and a coverage with respect to the toner particle from 50% to 100%.