DEVELOPER CARRYING MEMBER, PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION, AND DEVELOPING ASSEMBLY

摘要

A developer carrying member is provided the surface layer of which can make a developer stable by controlling its triboelectric charging strongly and which can maintain a high image quality over a long period of time even where a developer made highly spherical-particle or a small-particle developer is used. The developer carrying member has a substrate and a surface layer. The surface layer is a cured product of a resin composition containing a binder resin, conductive particles, a quaternary ammonium salt and an azo metal complex compound, the binder resin has in the molecular structure at least one structure selected from the group consisting of an -NH2 group, an =NH group and an -NH- linkage, and the azo metal complex compound is a compound represented by the formula (1) as defined in the specification.