Patent ID: 7892718

Claim:
An image forming method, comprising: charging a surface of a latent electrostatic image bearing member, exposing the charged surface of the latent electrostatic image bearing member to form a latent electrostatic image, developing the latent electrostatic image using a toner to form a visible image, transferring the visible image onto a recording medium, and fixing the transferred image on the recording medium, wherein the toner comprises a binder resin and a colorant, the binder resin comprises a polyester resin prepared by condensation polymerization between an alcohol component that contains an aliphatic polyvalent alcohol and a carboxylic acid component that contains at least one of (meth)acrylic acid-modified rosin and fumaric acid-modified rosin, and wherein the content of low molecular weight components having a molecular weight of 500 or less is 12% by mass or less in the polyester resin.