Method of fusing electrostatographic toners to provide enhanced gloss

摘要

A method of fusing an electrostatographic toner image to provide desirable levels of gloss in the fused image is disclosed. The toner particles have a loss tangent value of 1.2 or more upon fusing with combined heat and pressure. The unfused toner image is subjected to fusing in three distinct zones; a fusing zone where it is contacted with a fusing member, a cooling zone where contact with the fusing member is maintained and the image is cooled and a release zone where the image is released from the fusing member at a temperature where no toner image offset occurs.