Patent ID: 8475991

Claim:
An image forming method comprising at least steps of heating and melting a transparent toner supplied on an image support material; bringing the image support material, at a side on which the transparent toner is supplied, into contact with a belt; cooling the transparent toner while in contact with the belt; and releasing the image support material from the belt to form a glossy surface, wherein the transparent toner comprises a resin composed of a polymer formed by at least a polymerizable monomer containing a carboxylic group (—COOH), styrene, and an acrylic ester derivative or a methacrylic ester derivative, a content ratio of the polymerizable monomer containing the carboxylic group in the polymer is 15% by mass or more, and the glossy surface formed by the transparent toner has a critical surface tension, at 20° C., of at least 50 mN/m.