To provide a toner which suppresses production of odor during thermal fixing and prevents problems of odor with respect to a so-called polymerization toner, which has a small particle size, excellent fixing property and wide range of color reproduction, and to provide a method for forming images.
In the method for forming images including processes of developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoreceptor with a developer containing a toner, transferring the toner image formed on the photoreceptor to an image forming supporting body and fixing the transferred toner image by a fixing device, resin particles prepared by polymerizing the following polymerizable composition in a water-based medium are used as the toner under specified thermal fixing conditions. The polymerizable composition comprises at least radical polymerizable monomers and a compound expressed by formula (1): HS-R1-COOR2 as a chain transfer agent.
YAMAZAKI HIROSHI
YAMADA HIROYUKI
OMURA TAKESHI