Patent ID: 8843049
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: B41M,G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming method comprising: forming an image of a toner including a wax on a recording medium using electrophotography; fixing the toner image to the recording medium using an oil-less fixing device which fixes the toner image using a fixing member without applying a release agent to the fixing member; and then forming an overcoat layer on the fixed toner image, wherein when a portion of the fixed toner image having a heaviest toner weight in the fixed toner image is subjected to an Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic (ATR FT-IR) analysis to obtain a spectrum of the portion of the fixed toner image, the following relationship (1) or (2) is satisfied: wherein Aa represents an area of a peak of the spectrum present in a range of from 2896 cm wherein the ATR FT-IR analysis is performed under the following conditions: (1) crystal used is Ge; (2) incident angle is 45°; (3) number of reflectance is one; and (4) the area Aa of the peak in the range of from 2896 cm wherein forming the overcoat layer comprises applying an overcoat layer composition liquid on the fixed toner image; and irradiating the applied overcoat layer composition liquid with light or electron beams to form a crosslinked overcoat layer on the fixed toner image, and wherein when the overcoat layer composition liquid is dropped from a point 10 mm above the fixed toner image in an amount of 0.3 to 0.5 mg/cm