Patent ID: 8778588

Claim:
A toner, comprising: a binder resin; a colorant; and a releasing agent, wherein: the binder resin comprises a low molecular weight resin component having a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by formula (1); A=|[lnG′(r1)−lnG′(r2)]/(T1−T2)| (1), and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm 2 ) G′(Tfb) satisfying G′(Tfb)≦1×10 4 where Tfb is a flow onset temperature (° C.) of the low molecular weight resin component as measured by a capillary rheometer; A>0.165; T1 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G′(r1) is 1×10 5 (dyne/cm 2 ); T2 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G′(r2) is 1×10 3 (dyne/cm 2 ) as measured by a viscoelasticity measuring device with measuring frequency of 1 Hz, and measuring distortion of 1 deg; and ∥ represents an absolute value.