Provided is a magnetic carrier, including: a ferrite core particle; and a coating resin, in which: the coating resin has a surface resin layer and a resin composition in the stated order from a surface side thereof; the resin composition contains a resin, and an inorganic particle or carbon black that is subjected to a hydrophilic treatment; the surface resin layer contains a resin, is free of the inorganic particle or the carbon black, and has a thickness of from 0.01 μm or more to 4.00 μm or less; and a moisture percentage change between a moisture percentage when the magnetic carrier is left to stand under an environment of 30° C. and 80% RH for 24 hours, and a moisture percentage when the magnetic carrier is left to stand under an environment of 23° C. and 5% RH for 24 hours after the standing is 0.030 mass % or less.

An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle, and an amount of the coating resin layer that is peeled off from the magnetic particle when the carrier dispersed in water is irradiated with ultrasonic waves, relative to a coating amount of the coating resin layer before ultrasonic irradiation, is 800 mass ppm or more and 2,000 mass ppm or less, and a difference between an initial coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having no travel history and a coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having a travel history and being taken out from an electrostatic charge image developer, relative to the initial coating amount of the coating resin layer, is 0 mass ppm or more and 3,000 mass ppm or less.

An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle and contains a silica particle, and a ratio of Si on a surface of the coating resin layer, determined by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 6 atom % or more and 12 atom % or less.

An electrostatic charge image developing carrier, contains: a magnetic particle; and a coating resin layer coating the magnetic particle and containing inorganic particles, in which an area ratio of the inorganic particles that is a ratio of a total area of the inorganic particles to an area of the coating resin layer in a cut surface of the coating resin layer along a thickness direction of the coating resin layer is 10% or more and 50% or less.

A magnetic carrier having a ferrite-type core material and a resin coat layer present on the surface of the ferrite-type core material, wherein the ferrite-type core material contains a magnetic ferrite-type core material particle and an amino group-bearing primer compound; the resin coat layer contains a coating resin A that is a polymer of monomer containing a (meth)acrylate ester having an alicyclic hydrocarbon group; the content of the amino group-bearing primer compound in the ferrite-type core material and the content of the resin coat layer in the magnetic carrier are within the prescribed range.

A method for producing a recycled carrier includes: performing classification, the classification including separating a carrier having a coating layer from a collected developer by a centrifugal air classifier, the collected developer containing the carrier and being obtained by collecting an electrostatic charge image developer remaining after image formation; and performing recoating, the recoating including dissolving or thermally melting a coating resin of the separated and classified carrier and then coating the resulting carrier again to produce a recycled carrier.

A magnetic carrier includes a magnetic core and a coating resin that covers a surface of the magnetic core. The coating resin includes a resin A and a resin B. A content of the resin A is 1 to 50% by mass, and a content of the resin B is 50 to 99% by mass, with respect to the coating resin. The resin A has a particular unit Y1 and a particular unit Y2, and the resin B contains 0.1% by mass or less of the particular unit Y2. When a mass of the resin A is represented by X, a mass of the unit Y1 is represented by Ma, and a mass of the unit Y2 is represented by Mb, 0.90≤(Ma+Mb)/X≤1.00 and 1.00≤Ma/Mb≤30.0 are satisfied, and also 0≤|SPa−SPb|≤2.0 is satisfied.

A magnetic carrier including a magnetic core and a coating resin configured to coat the surface of the magnetic core. The coating resin contains a graft resin A and a graft resin B. The coating resin (i) contains 1.0 mass % or more and 50.0 mass % or less of the graft resin A, and (ii) contains 50.0 mass % or more and 99.0 mass % or less of the graft resin B. The graft resin A has a unit Y1 represented by formula (1) and a unit Y2 represented by formula (2). The graft resin B (i) is a comb-shaped polymer having, as a branch, at least one moiety selected from, for example, a styrene-based polymer moiety and a (meth)acrylate-based polymer moiety, and (ii) contains the polysiloxane structure moiety at a content of 0.1 mass % or less.

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The present invention relates to a ferrite particle, containing a crystal phase component containing a perovskite crystal represented by the compositional formula:

RZrO.sub.3 (provided that R represents an alkaline earth metal element), and having an apparent density in a range represented by the following formula:

1.90≤Y≤2.45

provided that Y in the formula is the apparent density (g/cm.sup.3) of the ferrite particle.

The present disclosure provides a toner having excellent low-temperature fixing, heat-resistant-storage property, cleaning performance, and filming resistance. A toner containing toner base particles having a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin includes a plurality of organic particles disposed at least partially embedded in a surface of the toner base particles. A percentage of the crystalline polyester resin occupying the surface of the toner base particles is 4% to 20%, a volume average particle size of the organic particles is 10 nm to 40 nm, and a standard deviation of a distance between adjacent particles of the organic particles that are not in contact is 500 nm or less.