A method for producing a capsule toner includes preparing core particles; preparing a shell fine particle dispersion liquid having a surface tension of 50 mN/m or more, as measured at 25° C., by dissolving a polyester resin in an organic solvent, thereafter performing neutralization with a neutralizer, and thereafter forming the polyester resin into fine particles; adjusting the surface tension of the shell fine particle dispersion liquid to less than 50 mN/m, as measured at 25° C., by adding a substance that does not include a surfactant to the shell fine particle dispersion liquid; and adhering the shell fine particle dispersion liquid to the surfaces of the core particles. The substance dissolves in or mixes with water and (i) has a vapor pressure equal to or greater than the vapor pressure of water or (ii) has a vapor pressure less than the vapor pressure of water and can be azeotropic with water.

A resin particle includes a fluorescent colorant and a binder resin. The fluorescent colorant is bound to the binder resin by a chemical bond.

Methods of making a fluorescent white toner are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises forming one or more fluorescent latexes which comprise a fluorescent agent, a first type of amorphous resin, and a second type of amorphous resin, wherein the first and second types of amorphous resins are present at a ratio in a range of from 2:3 to 3:2; forming a mixture comprising the one or more fluorescent latexes; a dispersion comprising a white colorant and a surfactant; one or more emulsions which comprise a crystalline resin, the first type of amorphous resin, the second type of amorphous resin; and optionally, a wax dispersion; aggregating the mixture to form particles of a predetermined size; forming a shell over the particles of the predetermined size to form core-shell particles; and coalescing the core-shell particles to form a fluorescent white toner. The fluorescent white toners and methods of using such toners are also provided.

Methods of making fluorescent pink toners are provided which comprise forming one or more fluorescent latexes which comprise a red fluorescent agent, a yellow fluorescent agent, a first type of amorphous resin, and a second type of amorphous resin, wherein the first and second types of amorphous resins are present at a ratio in a range of from 2:3 to 3:2; forming a mixture comprising the one or more fluorescent latexes; one or more emulsions which comprise a crystalline resin, the first type of amorphous resin, the second type of amorphous resin; and optionally, a wax dispersion; aggregating the mixture to form particles of a predetermined size; forming a shell over the particles of the predetermined size to form core-shell particles; and coalescing the core-shell particles to form a fluorescent pink toner. Fluorescent pink toners and methods of using such toners are also provided.

Methods of making fluorescent metallic toners are provided which comprise forming one or more fluorescent latexes which comprise a fluorescent agent, a first type of amorphous resin, and a second type of amorphous resin, wherein the first and second types of amorphous resins are present at a ratio in a range of from 2:3 to 3:2; forming a mixture comprising the one or more fluorescent latexes; a dispersion comprising aluminum flakes and a surfactant; one or more emulsions which comprise a crystalline resin, the first type of amorphous resin, the second type of amorphous resin; and optionally, a wax dispersion; aggregating the mixture to form particles of a predetermined size; forming a shell over the particles of the predetermined size to form core-shell particles; and coalescing the core-shell particles to form a fluorescent metallic toner. Fluorescent metallic toners and methods of using such toners are also provided.

A toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin and an inorganic infrared absorbent particle, wherein (1) in spectrometry of a fixed image obtained by fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording material by using the toner in a loading amount of 0.30 mg/cm.sup.2, a maximum value of a light absorbance in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 800 nm or less is 10% or less, and (2) in cross section observation of the toner particle using a transmission electron microscope, when a circle having the center of gravity of a cross section image of the toner particle as the center thereof and having a radius of 2.0 μm is drawn and the circle is divided into four to form four quadrants, a coefficient of variation in number of the inorganic infrared absorbent particles observed in each quadrant is 0.50 or less.

A magnetic carrier including a magnetic carrier particle having a magnetic core particle and a coating layer of an organosilicon polymer on a surface of the magnetic core particle, wherein the organosilicon polymer has the structure given by formula (T3) below; in .sup.29Si-NMR measurement of the THF-insoluble matter of the organosilicon polymer, the ratio ST3 of the peak area for the structure given by formula (T3) to the total peak area for the organosilicon polymer is at least 0.05; and in the roughness curve measured on the magnetic carrier particle, the mean width (RSm) of the roughness curve elements of the magnetic carrier particle, and the ratio (/RSm) to this RSm of the standard deviation of the width of the region where one period of a protrusion and a recess occurs, are in prescribed ranges.

RSi(O.sub.1/2).sub.3(T3)

R in the formula represents a prescribed substituent.

An electrophotographic toner of the present invention includes a toner mother particle including a bright pigment and a resin layer coating the bright pigment. The bright pigment includes a bright portion and a coating layer coating the bright portion, and when the average thickness of the coating layer is A nm and the average thickness of the resin layer is B nm, the electrophotographic toner satisfies A+B1.600 nm.

A toner for electrostatic image development includes: toner particles; Si-doped strontium titanate particles; and silica particles. The particle diameter D of at least one peak in a number-based particle size distribution of primary particles of the silica particles is larger than the number-based median diameter D.sub.50 of primary particles of the Si-doped strontium titanate particles.

Described herein is a method for manufacturing a low gloss toner. The method includes mixing a resin, a colorant and an optional wax in water to form an emulsion. The emulsion is heated in the presence of a polyion coagulant to form a plurality of aggregated particles, wherein the heating is to a temperature of below the glass transition temperature of the resin. Trisodium citrate dihydrate is added to the heated emulsion in amount of from 0.4 weight percent to about 1.0 percent by weight based on of a total weight of reagents while stirring, wherein the trisodium citrate dihydrate. The aggregated particles are heated to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the resin to form toner particles have a volume average particle diameter of from 4.3 microns to 4.9 microns.