Patent ID: 7183361

Claim:
A composition for use in electrophotographic or printing processes, the composition comprising a resin composition suitable for such processes and a rheology modifying agent, said rheology modifying agent being a solid at room temperature and comprising a branching monomer having a total functionality of three or more, an initiator monomer having at least two hydroxyl groups, and a linear long chain aliphatic carboxylic acid reactive with said initiator monomer, said linear long chain aliphatic carboxylic acid is selected from a group consisting of tetradecanoic acid, pentadecanoic acid, hexadecanoic acid, heptadecanoic acid, octadecanoic acid, nonadecanoic acid, eicosanoic acid, heneicosanoic acid, docosanoic acid, tricosanoic acid, tetracosanoic acid, pentacosanoic acid, hexacosanoic acid, hepacosanoic acid, and octacosanoic acid.