A toner including a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a crystalline polyester, wherein the binder resin contains a polyester having a structure represented by the following formula (1): ##STR00001##
in formula (1), Rs each independently represent hydrogen, a methyl group, or a phenyl group;
A represents a polyester segment;
B represents a polyester segment or any functional group selected from the group consisting of —R.sup.1OH, —R.sup.1COOH, ##STR00002##
and —R.sup.1NH.sub.2 wherein R.sup.1 represents a single bond or a C.sub.1-4 alkylene group; and
the average repeat number n is 10 to 80.

Provided is a toner comprising: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an organic silicon polymer particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, and when the toner particle is pelletized and a Young's modulus of the toner measured in a micro compression test at 25° C. is represented by TE (MPa) and when one organic silicon polymer particle is separated from the toner and a Young's modulus of the one organic silicon polymer particle measured in a micro compression test at 25° C. is represented by SiE (MPa), TE and SiE satisfies 800≤TE≤2500 and 1.5≤SiE/TE≤10.0.

An electrophotographic apparatus forms an image by forming an electrostatic latent image on the surface of an electrophotographic photoconductor and transferring a toner developed in the electrostatic latent image to a transfer material, where the photoconductor includes an outermost layer containing a silica filler, where the toner includes a toner base particle and an external additive as components, where the toner base particles at least contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a mold lubricant, and where the external additive represents externally-added silica and externally-added fine powder, the externally-added fine powder having the surface of a core hydrophobized with a silane compound, the core being derived by addition of silica to strontium titanate.

A toner is provided. The toner comprises a maleic-acid-modified polyolefin having a polypropylene block in a main chain and having a weight average molecular weight of 60,000 or more.

A toner contains a crystalline polyester resin, a non-crystalline polyester resin A having a melting temperature ranging between 99° C. to 108° C., a non-crystalline polyester resin B having a melting temperature ranging between 140° C. to 150° C., an ester wax, and a colorant. A ratio of the crystalline polyester resin is 5% mass to 15% mass to a total T of the crystalline polyester resin, the non-crystalline polyester resin A, the non-crystalline polyester resin B, the ester wax, and the colorant. A ratio of the non-crystalline polyester resin A to the total T is between 50% mass to 60% mass. A ratio of the non-crystalline polyester resin B to the total T is between 20% mass to 30% mass.

A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin and an inorganic fine particle, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, the crystalline resin has a first monomer unit represented by the following formula (1), the inorganic fine particle is at least one inorganic fine particle selected from the group consisting of a particle containing CaCO.sub.3, a particle containing BaSO.sub.4, a particle containing Mg.sub.3Si.sub.4O.sub.10(OH).sub.2, and a particle containing Al.sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.5(OH).sub.4, the inorganic fine particle is treated with a fatty acid, and a content B of the inorganic fine particle in the toner particle is 1.0 mass % or more to 15.0 mass % or less,

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wherein R.sub.Z1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group having 18 to 36 carbon atoms.

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles including first toner particles and second toner particles, the first toner particles having a brightness of less than 90 and the second toner particles having a brightness of 90 or more. The second toner particles constitute 0.1% by number or more and 10% by number or less of the toner particles, and, in the size distribution of the second toner particles, toner particles having a diameter equal to or smaller than the number-average diameter Dn of the toner particles constitute 70% by number or more.

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles containing an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin. The ratio Qs1/Qf1 is 1.1 or more and 2.0 or less, where Qf1 is the total area of all endothermic peaks detected during the first temperature rise when the toner particles are analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry after one-day storage under 50° C. conditions, and Qs1 is the total area of all endothermic peaks detected during the first temperature rise when classified toner particles are analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry after one-day storage under 50° C. conditions. The classified toner particles are a fraction of the toner particles in which toner particles having a diameter equal to or larger than the volume-average diameter D50v of the toner particles constitute 10% by number or less.

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles that contain binder resins including an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin and also contain an oligomer. The molecular weight distribution curve of the toner measured by gel permeation chromatography has its highest peak in a range of molecular weights from 5000 to 50000 and a peak or shoulder in a range of molecular weights from 500 to 5000. In a cross-sectional observation of the toner particles, domains of the crystalline resin have an average length of major axis of 100 nm or more and 1000 nm or less.

An electrostatic image developing toner set includes a brilliant toner having brilliant toner particles that include a binder resin and a brilliant pigment, and a color toner having color toner particles that include a binder resin and a colorant other than the brilliant pigment. The binder resin included in the brilliant toner particles and the binder resin included in the color toner particles are incompatible with each other.