Electrostatic charge image developing toner allows to design the toner characteristics such as chargeability, flowability, stability in time and environmental stability uniform among the toners of different colors. The toner has a small particle size enough for enabling uniform dispersion and being excellent in color saturation and transparency. The toner also shows higher contribution to the environmental security. The toner includes a coloring agent of which at least a part of the surface is covered with polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). The toner is produced by dispersing the coloring agent in aqueous medium, then fixing PHA synthesizing enzyme to the coloring agent dispersed in the aqueous medium, then adding 3-hydroxyacyl CoA, and executing a PHA synthesizing reaction to cover at least a part of the surface of the coloring agent with PHA. The toner thus obtained is used for an image forming method.
静电充电图像开发调色剂可以设计调色剂的特性,如充电性、流动性、时间稳定性和环境稳定性,使不同颜色的调色剂具有均匀的特性。该调色剂具有足够小的粒子大小,足以实现均匀分散,并具有出色的色彩饱和度和透明度。该调色剂还显示出更高的环境安全性贡献。该调色剂包括一种染色剂,其表面至少部分覆盖有聚羟基
脂肪酸酯(PHA)。该调色剂是通过在
水介质中分散染色剂,然后固定PHA合成酶到分散在
水介质中的染色剂上,然后添加3-羟基酰基CoA,并执行PHA合成反应,以覆盖染色剂表面的至少一部分与PHA。因此获得的调色剂用于图像形成方法。