Morphological and Composition Analysis of Inner Structure of Toner

Abstract

As the characteristics required for the printer, the environmental concerns such as power saving, recycling and decrease of the exhaust gases are growing in addition to basic demand such as high speed and high resolution. So each company is developing its technology recently. In the development of toner particles for the power saving, it is important to grasp the distribution state and physical property value of contained components inside the toner for controlling the characteristics. However, these analyses are mostly difficult by the charactaristic of its smallness and softness.

In this text, some examples of analyses are introduced about observation of distribution state of contained components, physical properties evaluation and composition analysis of micro sites.