Patent ID: 8921021

Claim:
A toner for electrophotography, comprising a resin binder, wherein said resin binder comprises at least one polyester resin, wherein said at least one polyester resin is obtained by polycondensing a carboxylic acid component and an alcohol component, wherein at least one of said carboxylic acid component and said alcohol component is an aromatic compound represented by formula (Ia): wherein each of R 1 and R 2 is independently a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group, and X is —COOR 3 , wherein R 3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or —CH 2 OH, with proviso that a case where both of R 1 and R 2 are hydrogen atoms is excluded, wherein said aromatic compound represented by formula (Ia) is present in an amount of from 2.5 to 25% by mol of the total amount of said carboxylic acid component and said alcohol component in said at least one polyester resin.