Electrophotographic carrier, developer using the same, and developing method

摘要

The present invention provides a carrier for electrophotography, which is capable of charging the toner in the developer very rapidly to a target electrostatic charge and at the same time, is capable of maintaining the target electrostatic charge during printing, so that the chemical fogging related to the slow charging rate can be eliminated and the image density related to the maintenance of the electrostatic charge can be preserved during printing. The charging rate and the charge maintenance of the electrophotographic carrier can be preserved if the carrier composed of magnetic core particles and the resin coat satisfies the following equation (B)>[(-19.4)x(A)+31], wherein (A) represents a carbon content (weight %) of the carrier and (B) represents a ratio of the square root of the number of emitted photoelectrons ((CPS)½) and the photon energy (eV).