Patent ID: 8824948

Claim:
A method for operating a printer, comprising: forming a toner image on a receiver using a toner having a polymeric binder and a wax; using a contact surface to apply heat and pressure to heat the toner at least to a glass transition temperature for the toner and to heat the wax at least to an incorporated melting temperature to cause at least some of the wax to separate from the toner to reduce adhesion between the contact surface and the toner; allowing the toner image to cool below a glass transition temperature of the toner to form a fused toner image having a viewing surface and allowing the wax to cool below the melting temperature for the wax so that after cooling the viewing surface has first portions with wax globules and second portions without wax globules; and wiping the viewing surface to move at least some of the wax from the wax globules in the first portions onto the second portions; wherein the viewing surface has a first gloss after the cooling of the viewing surface and a second gloss after wiping that is at least about 3 gloss units higher than the first gloss.