Patent ID: 7625684

Claim:
A toner for electrophotography comprising a resin binder and a colorant, wherein the resin binder comprises a crystalline polyester in an amount 80% or more by weight of the resin binder, wherein the polyester is obtained by polycondensing an alcohol component comprising 60% by mol or more of an aliphatic diol having 3 to 10 carbon atoms and a carboxylic acid component comprising 80% by mol or more of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid compound, the polyester having an index of crystallinity of from 0.6 to 1.5, and a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or more and less than 40° C., wherein the alcohol component comprises 60 to 90% by mol of a linear aliphatic diol having 4 to 10 carbon atoms and 10 to 40% by mol of a branched aliphatic diol having 3 to 10 carbon atoms.