Patent ID: 8323863
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming method, comprising: forming at least one electrostatic charge image on a surface of at least one image holding member; developing the at least one electrostatic charge image using a light-irradiation-fusible black toner and a light-irradiation-fusible color toner to form a black toner image and a color toner image; transferring the black toner image and the color toner image to a surface of a receiving body; and fixing the black toner image and the color toner image transferred to the surface of the receiving body by light-irradiation fusing with irradiation of light in the infrared region, the black toner being melted by the irradiation of the light in the infrared region in the light-irradiation fusing, the color toner containing an infrared absorber represented by the following Formula (I): a light absorptance of the color toner at a peak wavelength of the light in the infrared region irradiated in the light-irradiation fusing being from about 79% to about 98% of a light absorptance of the black toner at the peak wavelength, and the color toner having a color difference ΔE represented by the following Equation (1) of about 20 or less, in Equation (1), L