Patent ID: 8530130

Claim:
A method of forming a glossy image, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a clear toner particle layer with clear toner particles on an image support, (b) heating and pressing the clear toner particle layer formed on the image support, while bringing a surface of the clear toner particle layer into contact with a belt, and then (c) cooling the clear toner particle layer to form a clear toner layer, wherein the clear toner particles contain a binder resin and a releasing agent and exhibit a heat quantity of fusion of not less than 3.0 J/g and not more than 9.5 J/g, and the clear toner particles meeting the following requirement: 0.5 ≦S 2 /S 1≦1.0 wherein S1 represents a total area of releasing agent domains in a cross section of a clear toner particle and S2 represents a total area of releasing agent domains which exist within a region of 2 μm from the particle surface toward a center of gravity of the particle, and wherein the clear toner particles have a core/shell structure comprising a core and a shell layer and the releasing agent is contained only in the layer.