A coating layer application device (200) for applying a coating layer, which is located on a transfer element, to a substrate, the coating layer (206) being formed from a coating material, in particular a thermosetting coating material, the coating layer (206) being curable and comprising an amorphous material, the coating layer application device comprising: a heating device (214, 220) being configured so as to (i) maintain the temperature of the coating layer (206) within a temperature range before removal of N the transfer element (204) from the coating layer (206), wherein within the temperature range the uncured coating material is in its supercooled liquid state; and/or (ii) partially cure the coating layer (206) during a contact of the coating layer (206) and the substrate (210) and before removal of the transfer element (204) from the coating layer, in particular by increasing the temperature of the coating layer (206) to a temperature at or above a curing temperature of the coating layer (206).

A part material for printing three-dimensional parts with an electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system, the part material including a composition having a semi-crystalline thermoplastic material and a charge control agent. The part material is provided in a powder form having a controlled particle size, and is configured for use in the electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system having a layer transfusion assembly for printing the three-dimensional parts in a layer-by-layer manner.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: toner base particles containing a binder resin and a metal pigment; and an external additive containing lanthanum-containing strontium titanate particles.

A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a coating resin layer that contains inorganic particles and covers the core material. The content of the inorganic particles is 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total mass of the coating resin layer. The volume average diameter D (μm) of the inorganic particles and the thickness T (μm) of the coating resin layer satisfy the following relational expression (1): 0.007≤D/T≤0.24.

A coating material processable by non-impact printing to form at least a part of a coating layer representing an image, the coating material having an amorphous resin portion, is curable and is configured for being applied with a thickness of at least 15 μm, the coating material having one or more of the following: a polyester resin having at least one incorporated acid monomer and wherein at least 10 weight percent of the at least one incorporated acid monomer is isophthalic acid; a polyester resin containing 1 to 100 w-% of cycloaliphatic glycol compounds with respect to the total weight of the glycol compounds of the polyester resin component; an acrylic resin; a fluorine containing polymer; a polyurethane resin.

An image forming method includes: forming a toner image on a print medium by using a toner including toner particles having a binder resin which contains a condensate of straight-chain diol having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A and polyvalent carboxylic acid; and applying, to the toner image, a fixing solution containing an ester-based softening agent having a boiling point of not less than 180° C. so as to fix the toner image to the print medium.

A toner comprising base particles and external additive particles covering the base particles is provided. The base particles comprise a binder resin and a colorant. The external additive particles comprise at least one member selected from the group consisting of fluorine-containing aluminum hydroxide, fluorine-containing boehmite, and fluorine-containing pseudoboehmite.

A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a coating resin layer that contains inorganic particles and covers the core material. The content of the inorganic particles is 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total mass of the coating resin layer. The volume average diameter D (m) of the inorganic particles and the thickness T (m) of the coating resin layer satisfy the following relational expression (1): 0.007D/T0.24.

A toner comprising base particles and external additive particles covering the base particles is provided. The base particles comprise a binder resin and a colorant. The external additive particles comprise at least one member selected from the group consisting of fluorine-containing aluminum hydroxide, fluorine-containing boehmite, and fluorine-containing pseudoboehmite.

A developer comprises: at least one carrier; and, in an amount of 10 wt-% or less, a coating material (237), in particular for generating a coating layer by non-impact printing, the coating material being provided in the form of particles and comprising: a curable resin preferably an at least partially thermal curable resin and even more in particular curable by a crosslinking agent able to react with functional groups of the resin, the resin comprising in particular an amorphous resin portion; wherein an average diameter of the particles is in a range between 1 m and 25 m; and wherein the particles have an average sphericity larger than 0.7, in particular larger than 0.8, in particular a sphericity larger than 0.9; wherein, if the coating material is heated from room temperature with a heating rate of 5 K per minute, the coating material upon heating reduces its viscosity down to a minimum viscosity and increases its viscosity upon further increase of the temperature; wherein the minimum viscosity is in a range between 3 Pascal seconds and 20000 Pascal seconds.