| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention provides a toner which ensures large mean charging amount and excellent transfer efficiency with no or little amount of reversely charged toner and provides an image forming apparatus using the same. The toner is produced by adding external additives to resin particles containing a coloring agent, wherein the external additives are silica particles and modified silica particles of which outer surfaces are modified with oxide or hydroxide of at least one metal selected from a group consisting of titanium, tin, zirconium, and aluminum, the amount of the modified silica particles being 1.5 times or less of the amount the silica particles. The image forming apparatus uses the toner.</p> |
