A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image incorporates toner particles that contain binder resins including an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, an ester-based release agent, and a polycondensate of a styrene-acrylic resin and a polyolefin resin. The polycondensate of styrene-acrylic and polyolefin resins has a storage modulus G′.sub.SP (70) at 70° C. of 1×10.sup.4 Pa or more and 1×10.sup.7 Pa or less and a storage modulus G′.sub.SP (90) at 90° C. of 1×10.sup.3 Pa or more and 1×10.sup.6 Pa or less in dynamic rheometry. The toner particles have a storage modulus G′.sub.T (70) at 70° C. of 1×10.sup.4 Pa or more and 1×10.sup.6 Pa or less and a storage modulus G′.sub.T (90) at 90° C. of 1×10.sup.3 Pa or more and 1×10.sup.5 Pa or less in dynamic rheometry.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner that has a binder resin that contains a crystalline resin and toner particles that contain resin particles, in which a loss coefficient tan δS (30) at 30° C. of the resin particles is 1 or more, and a loss coefficient tan δS (50) at 50° C. of the resin particles is less than 1.

Disclosed is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including: toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material; and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin; and the external additive contains strontium titanate particles doped with metal elements other than titanium and strontium.

A toner including particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, and wax, the toner having, in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) performing a temperature program including steps of heating from 40° C. to 100° C. or more at a heating rate of 10° C./min (first heating), then cooling to 40° C. or less at a cooling rate of 10° C./min (first cooling), and then heating to 100° C. or more at a heating rate of 10° C./min (second heating), a total endothermic amount HA1 in the first heating from 40° C. to 100° C. and a total endothermic amount HA2 in the second heating from 40° C. to 100° C. that satisfy the following relationship (1), and a difference between a full width at half maximum of an endothermic peak in the second heating and a full width at half maximum of an exothermic peak in the first cooling of 7.00° C. or less: (1) HA2/HA1>0.80.

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image incorporates toner particles that contain binder resins, in which: the binder resins include amorphous resins and at least one crystalline resin, the amorphous resins including amorphous resin a1 and amorphous resin a2, the crystalline resin including crystalline resin cl; and

10,000≤Mw(a2)−Mw(a1)≤150,000  (1), and

|SP(a1)−SP(c1)|/|SP(a2)−SP(c1)|≤0.9  (2),

where Mw (al) is the weight-average molecular weight of amorphous resin a1, Mw (a2) is that of amorphous resin a2, SP (a1) is the solubility parameter (SP) of amorphous resin a1, SP (a2) is that of amorphous resin a2, and SP (c1) is that of crystalline resin c1.

A toner particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax. The binder resin includes an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin. The amorphous polyester resin includes, as monomer units, a first monomer having a pendant group, terephthalic acid, and ethylene glycol.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises a resin A and a resin B, in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement, a peak top temperature of the largest endothermic peak is present within a specific temperature range and an endothermic amount of an endothermic peak derived from the resin A is 30 to 70 J/g per 1 g of the toner, a ratio of content of the resin A in the toner particle is 60.0 to 90.0 mass %, the resin A comprises 40.0 to 70.0 mass % of a monomer unit (a) represented by formula (1) below, and the resin B comprises 5.0 to 30.0 mass % of a monomer unit (b) represented by formula (2) below:

##STR00001## in formulae (1) and (2), R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 denote a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, n and m denote a specific integer.

An image forming method is provided. The image forming method includes: forming an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image bearer; developing the electrostatic latent image on the electrostatic latent image bearer with a toner to form a toner image; transferring the toner image from the electrostatic latent image bearer onto a continuous resin film; fixing the toner image on the continuous resin film with a heat roller or a heat belt. The toner contains a maleic-acid-modified polyolefin having a polypropylene block in a main chain.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises a first resin and a second resin, the first resin is a crystalline resin, the second resin is an amorphous resin, and in observations of cross sections of 100 toner particles using a transmission electron microscope, (i) when an area ratio A (area %) denotes a ratio of an area occupied by the first resin in each of cross sections of the toner particles, an average value of the area ratio A is 30 to 75 area %, and (ii) when X denotes the number of cross sections of the toner particle for which the area ratio A is 90 area % or more and Z denotes the total number of cross sections of observed toner particles, then a value of X/Z is 0.15 or more.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the binder resin has a side-chain crystalline polymer B having a monomer unit A made of at least one polymerizable monomer A selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid esters having a linear alkyl group having 18 to 36 carbon atoms, and the toner particle comprises boric acid.