Plateable toner and method for producing the same

摘要

A plateable toner which can be effectively employed in plateable toner technology comprises a shell and core arrangement where the core is a toner particle and the shell is an effective amount of at least one catalyzing and/or activating compound for electroless plating and at least one binding and/or sensitizing compound. The toner core can comprise a commercially available OEM toner powder, a toner core having properties selected for PTT produced by techniques employed in OEM toner production or a spray dried toner core.