Electrostatic image developing toner, electrostatic image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming method, and image forming apparatus

1. An electrostatic image developing toner comprising:

a binder resin; and

a copper phthalocyanie pigment having a complementary relationship with a color hue of the binder resin, the pigment being contained in an amount of from 15 ppm to 20 ppm.

2. The electrostatic image developing toner according to claim 1 , wherein the binder resin is a polyester resin.

3. The electrostatic image developing toner according to claim 2 , wherein the polyester resin has a bisphenol skeleton.

4. The electrostatic image developing toner according to claim 1 , wherein

the toner is prepared by aggregating particles containing at least the binder resin in a dispersion in which the particles are dispersed to obtain aggregated particles and by heating and fusing the aggregated particles, and

the binder resin contains a polyester resin in an amount of about 70 mass % or greater but not greater than about 100 mass %.

5. The electrostatic image developing toner according to claim 1 , wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin in an amount of about 1 mass % or greater but not greater than about 30 mass %.

6. The electrostatic image developing toner according to claim 1 , further comprising a releasing agent, which is a polyolefin.

7. An electrostatic image developer comprising:

the electrostatic image developing toner as claimed in claim 1 ; and

a carrier.

8. An image forming method, comprising at least:

charging an image holding member;

forming a latent image on the image holding member;

developing the latent image on the image holding member by using the electrostatic image developer as claimed in claim 7 to form a toner image;

primarily transferring the developed toner image to an intermediate transfer member;

secondarily transferring the toner image transferred to the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium; and

fixing the toner image by using at least heat or pressure.

9. An electrostatic image developing toner comprising:

a binder resin;

a releasing agent; and

a copper phthalocyanine pigment having a complementary relationship with a color hue of the binder resin, the pigment being contained in an amount from 15 ppm to 20 ppm,

wherein assuming that a color difference ΔE*ab is defined as ΔE*ab=[(Δa*) 2 +(Δb*) 2 +(ΔL*) 2 ] 1/2 , the color difference ΔE*ab between a recording medium and a toner image is about 5 or less, after the toner is fixed onto the recording medium with a toner amount thereon being 10 g/m 2 .

10. An electrostatic image developing toner comprising:

a binder resin; and

a copper phthalocyanine pigment having a complementary relationship with a color hue of the binder resin, the pigment being contained in an amount of from 15 ppm to 20 ppm,

wherein the electrostatic image developing toner is a colorless transparent toner.