Patent ID: 8283098

Claim:
A method of preparing a toner comprising a binder resin and a colorant, the method comprising: forming resin particles containing a resin (A) formed by allowing a styrene monomer, a (meth)acryl monomer and a polymer represented by the following formula (1) to react, and mixing the resin particles with colorant particles which were dispersed and allowing the resin particles and the colorant particle to coagulate and fuse to form toner particles; X—(Y) n —X formula (1) wherein X is at least one of an acryloyl group and a methacryloyl group, Y is a radical polymerizable monomer unit and n is an integer of 25 to 1000, and wherein the resin (A) is formed by a process comprising dispersing the styrene monomer and the (meth)acryl monomer in an aqueous medium and polymerizing said monomers in the presence of the polymer of the formula (1) in the aqueous medium.