JP2007199403A - Electrophotographic transfer paper - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide electrophotographic transfer paper with which the rigidity and the strength of paper are improved, particularly inter-layer strength is improved, the generation of jamming troubles and peeling in a copying machine are suppressed at copy transpart, generation of paper powder is reduced, and superior printing quality is obtained. <P>SOLUTION: A spare coagulation filler which is obtained by treating a filler by using a composite acrylamide group copolymer composed of anionic polysaccharide (A) and a cationic and/or amphoteric acrylamide group copolymer (B) and whose average particle size, measured by laser diffractometry is 10 to 80μm, is added and 3 to 40 solid content wt.% is included as ash in paper and the electrophotographic transfer paper is obtained. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an electrophotographic transfer paper that does not cause jam trouble or peel in a copying machine during copy conveyance, has no paper dust trouble, and is excellent in print runnability, and a method for manufacturing the same.

In electrophotographic transfer paper such as PPC paper and laser beam printer paper, the strength of the paper is lowered due to the high filler and the high compounding of the used paper pulp, and there has been a case where a delamination phenomenon called “peel” occurs during copy conveyance.
Further, the most important quality is that it can withstand the use of a copying machine or a laser beam printer which is printed by an electrophotographic printing method, and the requirements for post-copy curling and bending stiffness related to jam trouble are extremely severe. Recently, since printing for a long time is increasing, problems such as image defects due to paper dust accumulation are also regarded as important.
In order to improve the printing surface of electrophotographic transfer paper, it is effective to raise the ash content in the paper. The increase in ash content in paper also has the effect of improving smoothness and reducing curl after copying. However, in electrophotographic transfer paper, the paper strength, particularly the interlayer strength, decreases due to high ash differentiation, and the peel during copying is reduced. There are problems of frequent occurrence, increased paper dust generated in the copying machine, and increased jam trouble due to a decrease in bending stiffness.

  As a technique for keeping a large amount of filler in the paper and suppressing a decrease in paper strength, there is a technique for pre-aggregating the filler and adding the aggregate to the paper. For example, by using a cheap white pigment with a general fine particle size, the specific scattering coefficient can be increased efficiently, and the yield to the paper layer is good, and a paper manufacturing method with little reduction in paper strength and stiffness is provided. In the paper, the basic particles of the filler having a refractive index of 1.45 to 1.65 are agglomerated to add agglomerated particles of the filler so as to form a large number of internal voids to the pulp slurry, and the paper is made. A manufacturing method is known (see Patent Document 1). In this method, calcium carbonate, kaolin, anhydrous calcium sulfate, gypsum, calcium sulfite, calcium silicate, barium sulfate, talc, diatomaceous earth are exemplified as fillers, and the aggregation method is an inorganic flocculant such as pH adjustment with acid or base, aluminum sulfate, etc. Addition of organic polymer flocculants is shown. However, this method is adjusted so as to form a large number of internal voids having a pore size of the internal voids of 0.1 μm or more and as close to 0.1 μm as possible, and this adjustment is difficult.

  Another issue is to provide a paper product with filler and a method for producing the same, which uses inexpensive calcium carbonate, improves opacity efficiently, has a good yield on the paper layer, and has little decrease in paper strength and stiffness. , A paper product mainly composed of pulp and calcium carbonate, agglomerated particles having a calcium carbonate particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.3 μm, and containing the aggregated particles in an amount of 5 to 80% by weight based on the dry pulp, and a method for producing the same Are known (see Patent Document 2), but as an aggregating method, pH adjustment with an acid or base, addition of an inorganic aggregating agent such as aluminum sulfate, or an organic polymer aggregating agent is shown. However, this technique needs to be dehydrated and dried in order to stabilize the aggregated particle diameter, and is not practical.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a papermaking method that greatly improves the wire wear of a paper machine that occurs when heavy calcium carbonate is used as a papermaking filler. In the papermaking method using heavy calcium carbonate as a papermaking filler, There is a papermaking method in which calcium carbonate is mixed with a cation-modified starch aqueous solution in advance and then added to the stock (see Patent Document 3). Further, in a method for producing paper mainly composed of pulp and calcium carbonate filler, the filler is agglomerated using cationized starch and cationized guar gum as an aggregating agent, or an inorganic aggregating agent such as aluminum sulfate or polyaluminum chloride is used. Also known is a method for producing a filler-added paper in which the filler is aggregated and then further aggregated using cationized starch and cationized guar gum, and the aggregated particles are added in an amount of 1 to 50% by weight in the paper. (See Patent Document 4). However, in the above technique, since a single ionic drug is used, the charge balance of the processing system is determined only by the amount of the processing agent. However, there is a problem that the adsorption efficiency of the treatment agent to the filler is deteriorated.

Also known is a paper manufacturing method in which a pre-aggregation filler is added to a paper furnish (particularly news paper furnish) containing 30% or more of low grade pulp such as crushed wood pulp and recycled pulp (patent) Reference 5). In this technology, clay, china clay, lithopone, sulfate filler, titanium pigment, titanium dioxide, satin white, talc, calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, gypsum, chalk etc. are listed as fillers, and water-soluble flocculants Vinyl polymers, gums, aluminum sulfate, mannogalactans, anionic starch derivatives, and cationic starch derivatives are used, but there is a problem that the strength of paper is insufficient.
Furthermore, chemicals such as starch strengthening agents such as starch and polyacrylamide (hereinafter abbreviated as PAM) are used to suppress a decrease in paper strength due to higher fillers. However, it is necessary to increase the amount of chemicals added, which causes problems such as contamination.

JP 54-50605 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 54-116405 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 60-119299 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-60794 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2000-129589

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is that the rigidity and strength of the paper are good, there is no occurrence of jam trouble or peel in the copying machine at the time of copying, and there is little generation of paper dust at the time of electrophotographic printing, and the smoothness Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic transfer paper that is excellent in print quality because of its high printing quality.

The present invention relates to laser diffraction obtained by treating a filler with a composite acrylamide copolymer comprising (A) an anionic polysaccharide and (B) a cationic and / or amphoteric acrylamide copolymer. The basic constitution is an electrophotographic transfer paper containing a pre-aggregated filler having an average particle diameter of 10 to 80 μm according to the method in the paper and 3 to 40% by solid weight as ash in the paper.
It is preferable that the addition amount of the composite acrylamide copolymer composed of the component (A) and the component (B) of the filler treating agent is 0.1 to 3.0% by weight based on the filler. Moreover, it is preferable that the weight ratio of a component (A) and a component (B) is A / B = 2-45 / 98-55.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper that has improved rigidity and paper strength, does not cause jam trouble or peel during copy conveyance, and generates less paper dust when used in a copier or laser beam printer. it can.

  The pulp material of the electrophotographic transfer paper used in the present invention is not particularly limited, and is determined as hardwood kraft pulp (LKP), softwood kraft pulp (NKP), deinked pulp (DIP), and ground pulp (GP). Any material generally used as a papermaking material for electrophotographic transfer paper such as thermomechanical pulp (TMP) and chemithermomechanical pulp (CTMP) may be used.

  As a result of examining the combination of a filler and a treatment agent, the present inventors have found that the treatment agent combined with the filler comprises (A) an anionic polysaccharide and (B) a cationic and / or amphoteric acrylamide copolymer. We have found that the combination of complex acrylamide copolymer is optimal. The reason for this is that complex PAM consists of (A) anionic polysaccharide and (B) cationic or amphoteric PAM, which have different characteristics in terms of ionicity and polymer structure, and the anionic and high molecular weight of the polysaccharide. Because of the spread structure of PAM and the cationic and hydrophilic properties of PAM, it forms a polyion complex that has both properties, so that it can exhibit a moderate agglomeration effect on filler particles and a high affinity for pulp slurry. It is thought that. In the method of adding the pre-agglomerated filler to the paper, since the filler is agglomerated in advance, it is hardly affected by the anionic substance in the paper, and the yield of the filler is greatly improved.

In addition, when adding internal additives such as cationized starch and PAM paper strength enhancer to pulp slurry containing filler treated with composite PAM, it is synergistic without inhibiting the effects of filler and chemical. Therefore, a large paper strength improvement effect can be obtained with a smaller amount of chemicals.
That is, a coated filler obtained by treating a filler with a composite PAM in which two specific components having different charge characteristics are combined has a moderate agglomeration effect, has an excellent affinity with a pulp slurry, or is internally added to a pulp slurry. Because of its good compatibility with chemicals, it is possible to exert a large paper strength enhancing effect with a small amount of chemicals even with highly filled paper.

In the present invention, the method for producing the pre-agglomerated filler is desirably to add the composite PAM liquid prepared in advance by the component (A) and the component (B) to the filler slurry, but the component (A) and the component (B )) May be added separately to the filler slurry.
As the filler for pre-aggregation, known ones can be optionally used, for example, light calcium carbonate, heavy calcium carbonate, clay, calcined clay, diatomaceous earth, talc, kaolin, calcined kaolin, deramikaolin, magnesium carbonate, barium carbonate. , Titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, silicon oxide, amorphous silica, aluminum hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, zinc hydroxide and other inorganic fillers, urea-formalin resin, polystyrene resin, phenol resin, fine hollow particles, etc. One or more types can be used. Preferably it is calcium carbonate, More preferably, it is light calcium carbonate, and can further exhibit a more moderate coagulation effect and high affinity to the pulp slurry.

Furthermore, the shape of the light calcium carbonate is preferably a rosetta type, a spindle type, or a columnar type. The average particle size of the filler is preferably from 0.1 to 20 μm, and the specific surface area is preferably from 3 to 20 m 2.
The average particle size of the pre-agglomerated filler particularly affects the strength of the paper and the amount of paper dust, and the average particle size is in the range of 10 to 80 μm, preferably 20 to 60 μm, more preferably 25 to 55 μm.
When the degree of aggregation is weak and the average particle diameter is less than 10 μm, the strength of the paper is low. Conversely, when the degree of aggregation is strong and the average particle diameter exceeds 80 μm, there is no problem with the strength of the paper, but the whiteness is low. Decreases or increases the amount of paper dust.
The complex PAM of the present invention comprises (A) an anionic polysaccharide and (B) a cationic and / or amphoteric PAM. In this case, anionic PAM is excluded from component (B).

  As the anionic polysaccharide (A), derivatives such as starches, alginic acids, celluloses, and gums into which carboxyl groups, sulfate groups, or sulfonate groups are introduced can be used singly or in combination as acid substituents. . As a specific method for producing an anionic polysaccharide, a polysaccharide having a carboxyl group can be produced by allowing an anionic agent such as chloroacetic acid to act on various polysaccharides. Commercially available anionic polysaccharides include carboxymethyl celluloses (carboxymethyl cellulose and salts thereof; hereinafter referred to as CMC), alginic acids (alginic acid and salts thereof), xanthan gum, carboxymethyl guar gum, phosphorylated guar gum, carboxymethyl starch, phosphorus Examples include acid starch. In the present invention, the anionic polysaccharide is preferably CMC or alginic acid.

Among the above components (B), an amphoteric acrylamide copolymer (referred to as amphoteric PAM for convenience) comprises (a) (meth) acrylamide, (b) a cationic monomer, and (c) an anionic monomer as constituent components. To do.
Examples of the (meth) acrylamide (a) include acrylamide (abbreviated as AM) and / or methacrylamide.
The cationic monomer (b) is composed of primary to tertiary amino group-containing (meth) acrylamide, primary to tertiary amino group-containing (meth) acrylate, quaternary ammonium base-containing (meth) acrylamide, quaternary ammonium base-containing (meta ) Acrylate, diallyldialkylammonium halide and the like, and one or more cationic groups in the molecule. For example, in a quaternary ammonium base-containing monomer, the compound represented by the following general formula (1) is This is a representative example.
[CH ₂ = C (R ₁ ) −CO−A−R ₂ −N ⁺ (R ₃ ) (R ₄ ) (R ₅ )] X ⁻ (1)
(In the formula (1), R ₁ is H or CH ₃ ; R ₂ is a C ₁ -C ₃ alkylene group; R ₃ , R ₄ , R ₅ are H, C ₁ -C ₃ alkyl group, benzyl group, CH ₂ CH (OH) CH ₂ N ⁺ (CH ₃ ) ₃ X ⁻ , which may be the same or different; A is O or NH; X is an anion such as halogen or alkyl sulfate).

Examples of the cationic monomer (b) include primary to tertiary amino group-containing (meth) acrylamide, primary to tertiary amino group-containing (meth) acrylate, quaternary ammonium base-containing (meth) acrylamide, and quaternary ammonium base ( (Meth) acrylate is preferred.
The primary or secondary amino group-containing (meth) acrylamide is a primary amino group-containing (meth) acrylamide such as aminoethyl (meth) acrylamide, or methylaminoethyl (meth) acrylamide, ethylaminoethyl (meth) acrylamide. Secondary amino group-containing (meth) acrylamides such as t-butylaminoethyl (meth) acrylamide. The tertiary amino group-containing (meth) acrylamide is dimethylaminoethyl (meth) acrylamide, dimethylaminopropyl (meth) acrylamide (dimethylaminopropyl acrylamide is abbreviated as DMAPAA), diethylaminoethyl (meth) acrylamide, diethylaminopropyl ( A representative example is dialkylaminoalkyl (meth) acrylamide such as (meth) acrylamide.

  The primary or secondary amino group-containing (meth) acrylate is a primary amino group-containing (meth) acrylate such as aminoethyl (meth) acrylate, or methylaminoethyl (meth) acrylate or ethylaminoethyl (meth) acrylate. Secondary amino group-containing (meth) acrylates such as t-butylaminoethyl (meth) acrylate. The tertiary amino group-containing (meth) acrylates are dimethylaminoethyl (meth) acrylate (dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate is abbreviated as DM), dimethylaminopropyl (meth) acrylate, diethylaminoethyl (meth) acrylate, diethylaminopropyl ( A representative example is a dialkylaminoalkyl (meth) acrylate such as (meth) acrylate.

  The quaternary ammonium base-containing (meth) acrylamide or quaternary ammonium base-containing (meth) acrylate is a tertiary ammonium base-containing (meth) acrylamide or tertiary ammonium base-containing (meth) acrylate, methyl chloride, benzyl chloride, sulfuric acid Mono-quaternary base-containing monomers using quaternizing agents such as methyl and epichlorohydrin, such as acrylamidopropylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride, methacryloyloxyethyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride (DMBQ), acryloyloxyethyldimethylbenzyl Ammonium chloride, (meth) acryloylaminoethyltrimethylammonium chloride, (meth) acryloylaminoethyltriethylammonium chloride, (meth) acryloyloxyethyltrimethylan Examples include monium chloride and (meth) acryloyloxyethyl triethylammonium chloride.

As the cationic monomer, a bis-quaternary base-containing monomer having two quaternary ammonium bases in the molecule can be used from the viewpoint of increasing the molecular weight. Specifically, bis quaternary base-containing (meth) acrylamide having two quaternary ammonium bases or bis quaternary base-containing (meth) acrylate may be mentioned. Examples of bis quaternary base-containing (meth) acrylamide include bis quaternary base-containing (meth) acrylamide (DMAPAA-Q2) obtained by reacting dimethylaminopropylacrylamide with 1-chloro-2hydroxypropyltrimethylammonium chloride. (Abbreviated). This DMAPAA-Q2 is represented by the following general formula (1) of the cationic monomer: R ₁ = H, R _{2 =} propylene group, A = NH, R ₃ and R ₄ are each methyl group, R ₅ = CH ₂ CH ( OH) CH ₂ N ⁺ (CH ₃ ) ₃ C ⁻ , X = a compound corresponding to chlorine.

On the other hand, the diallyldialkylammonium halide belonging to the quaternary ammonium base-containing cationic monomer is, for example, diallyldimethylammonium chloride.
The anionic monomer (c) which is a structural unit of the amphoteric PAM is an α, β-unsaturated carboxylic acid or an α, β-unsaturated sulfonic acid.
The unsaturated carboxylic acids are (meth) acrylic acid (acrylic acid is abbreviated as AA), (anhydrous) maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid (abbreviated as IA), (anhydrous) citraconic acid, its sodium, potassium and ammonium salts Etc.
Examples of the unsaturated sulfonic acids include vinyl sulfonic acid, (meth) allyl sulfonic acid, styrene sulfonic acid, sulfopropyl (meth) acrylate, 2- (meth) acrylamide-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid, and salts thereof.
In amphoteric PAM, the above components (a) to (c) are further used with a crosslinkable monomer (d) and / or a chain transfer agent (e) to give the copolymer a branched crosslink structure. Can do.

  The above crosslinkable monomer (d) contributes to increase the molecular weight of the copolymer and increase the active point for ash retention, and bismuth such as methylene bisacrylamide (abbreviated as MBAM) and ethylene bis (meth) acrylamide. (Meth) acrylamides, di (meth) acrylates such as ethylene glycol diol (meth) acrylate, diethylene glycol di (meth) acrylate, dimethylacrylamide (abbreviated as DMAM), methacrylonitrile, and the like can be used.

The chain transfer agent suppresses the increase in the viscosity of the copolymer and acts to adjust the molecular weight by increasing the branched structure. Isopropyl alcohol (abbreviated as IPA), sodium methallyl sulfonate (abbreviated as SMS), allyl sulfone Known chain transfer agents such as mercaptans such as sodium acid (abbreviated as SAS), n-dodecyl mercaptan, mercaptoethanol and thioglycolic acid can be used.
Further, in the amphoteric PAM, if necessary, a nonionic monomer such as acrylonitrile may be used as another monomer.
The components (a) to (c) of amphoteric PAM (A) can be used alone or in combination.
The content of the components (a) to (c) in the amphoteric PAM (A) is arbitrary and is not particularly limited, but the content of (meth) acrylamide (a) relative to the copolymer is 65 to 98.8 mol%. The cationic monomer (b) is preferably 1 to 20 mol%, and the anionic monomer (c) is preferably 0.2 to 15 mol%.

Of the component (B), a cationic acrylamide copolymer (referred to as cationic PAM for convenience) comprises (meth) acrylamide (a) and a cationic monomer (b) as constituent components.
Needless to say, these (meth) acrylamide (a) and the cationic monomer (b) can use the corresponding components listed as constituent monomer components of the amphoteric PAM.
Also in the cationic PAM, the above components (a) and (b) are further branched to the copolymer using the crosslinkable monomer (d) and / or the chain transfer agent (e). You may make it give a structure. Furthermore, in this cationic PAM, if necessary, a nonionic monomer such as acrylonitrile may be used as another monomer.
Further, the components (a) and (b) of the cationic PAM can be used alone or in combination, respectively, as in the case of the amphoteric PAM.
The contents of the components (a) and (b) in the cationic PAM are arbitrary and are not particularly limited, but the content of (meth) acrylamide in the copolymer is 85 to 99 mol%, the cationic monomer ( b) is preferably 1 to 15 mol%.

The composite PAM of the present invention is prepared by mixing components (A) and (B), or is produced by polymerizing the constituent monomer of component (B) in the presence of component (A).
The combinations of the components in the above mixing method are as follows (1) to (3).
(1) Anionic polysaccharide and amphoteric PAM
(2) Anionic polysaccharide and cationic PAM
(3) Anionic polysaccharide, amphoteric PAM and cationic PAM

By mixing the component (A) and the component (B), a polyion complex having both the anionic and high molecular weight spreading structure of the polysaccharide and the cationic and hydrophilic properties of the acrylamide copolymer is obtained. It is formed.
On the other hand, when the component (B) is produced by copolymerizing the constituent monomers as in the above polymerization method, the composite PAM can be produced by coexisting the component (A).
That is, the constituent monomers for producing amphoteric or cationic PAM are (a) acrylamide, (b) cationic monomers, and (c) anionic monomers as described above. When a copolymerization reaction is carried out in the presence of saccharide, an anionic polysaccharide is mixed in the generated amphoteric or cationic PAM, and both form a polyion complex.
In other words, when the composite PAM of the present invention is produced by copolymerizing a cationic or amphoteric PAM, the anionic polysaccharide (A) may be added before the copolymerization reaction, A polyion complex may be formed between the components (A) and (B) without any problem later.

In producing the composite PAM of the present invention, the mixing ratio (weight ratio) of the component (A) and the component (B) is preferably A / B = 2/98 to 45/55, and 4/96 to 30/70. Is more preferable.
If the anionic polysaccharide (A) is more than 45% by weight, the anion becomes excessive, the adsorption rate to the filler decreases, the particle system of the coated filler does not increase properly, and the yield may decrease. is there.
Since two types of conjugates having different charge characteristics are a feature of the present invention, when the anionic polysaccharide (A) is less than 2% by weight, the effect of this complexing is reduced.

The amount of the treatment agent is 0.1 to 3.0% by weight based on the filler to be aggregated, so that the particle size of the aggregate filler can be easily adjusted to 10 to 80 μm, and the aggregate filler is broken in the paper machine. It is difficult to maintain its shape. When the amount of the flocculant is 0.1% by weight or less with respect to the filler, the average particle diameter of the flocculant filler tends to be smaller than 10 μm, and the paper strength improvement effect cannot be obtained.
On the other hand, even if 3.0% by weight or more is added, the paper strength improvement effect is not obtained any more, and only the cost of using chemicals is increased.

The preliminary agglomerates are added to the mixed pulp raw material slurry. In the paper making process, it is preferably added before the head box after the mixer in which various pulps are mixed, and it is optimal to add to the head box.
The pre-aggregation filler ratio of the electrophotographic transfer paper of the present invention is 3 to 40% by solid content. Preferably it is 5-30 solid content weight%, More preferably, it is 7-25 solid content weight%. If the solid content is less than 3% by weight, the yield of the filler is good and there is no problem with jam (paper jam) and paper dust in electrophotographic copying machines and laser beam printers, but there is not enough opacity, so there is a large amount of through-through. Since the smoothness is low, there is a problem that the printing surface is not excellent. When the solid content exceeds 40% by weight, the pulp yield is low, so the yield of the filler is lowered, or even if the present invention is used, sufficient copy suitability is not obtained, and the amount of paper dust is also a problem. There is a case. Moreover, as ash content in paper, it is 3-40 solid content weight%. In the present invention, a filler that is not subjected to the mixing treatment as described above may be added as long as the effects of the present invention are not impaired.

  In the present invention, as internal chemicals other than pulp and filler, neutral sizing agents such as alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent, alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent, neutral rosin sizing agent, polyacrylamide, cationized starch and the like A wet paper strength agent such as a dry paper strength agent or polyamidoamine epichlorohydrin can be added. In order to further increase the yield of the filler, a known inorganic flocculant (sulfuric acid band or the like) or an organic polymer flocculant can be added, and a known high-yield system (for example, a hydrocoal system, a compositor system). Etc.) can be used in combination.

In recent years, paper bulking agents have been embedded to increase the bulk of paper. Most of these bulking agents lower the paper strength and rigidity of paper. When the present invention is applied to an electrophotographic transfer paper containing such a bulking agent and having reduced paper strength and rigidity, The effect of imparting force and stiffness is large, and jamming and paper dust generation can be suppressed while being bulky.
In the electrophotographic transfer paper of the present invention, in addition to the aforementioned internal chemicals, a paper bulking agent can be internally added and contained in the paper. Specific examples of the bulking agent for paper include oil-based nonionic surfactants, sugar alcohol-based nonionic surfactants, sugar-based nonionic surfactants, polyhydric alcohol-type nonionic surfactants, polyvalent alcohols Ester compound of alcohol and fatty acid, polyoxyalkylene adduct of higher alcohol or higher fatty acid, polyoxyalkylene adduct of higher fatty acid ester, polyoxyalkylene adduct of polyhydric alcohol and fatty acid ester compound, fatty acid polyamidoamine, straight chain And fatty acid monoamides, unsaturated fatty acid monoamides, unsaturated fatty acid diamide amines, and the like.

  Examples of these bulking agents for paper are exemplified in the patent literature. The paper bulking agent described in Japanese Patent No. 3128248, the paper bulking agent described in Japanese Patent No. 3453505, the paper bulking agent described in Japanese Patent No. 3482336, the paper bulking agent described in Japanese Patent No. 3537692, the patent No. 3 No. 3482337, a paper bulking agent described in Japanese Patent No. 2971447, a papermaking paper quality improving agent described in Japanese Patent No. 3283248, a drying efficiency improving agent described in Japanese Patent No. 3387033, and a patent No. 3387036. Smoothness and gas permeability improver described in Japanese Patent No. 3517200, additive for papermaking described in Japanese Patent No. 3517200, paper quality improver described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-248100, and improvement in paper quality described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-336196. Agent, paper opacifier described in JP-A No. 2000-273792, and used paper recycling described in JP-A No. 2002-129497 Additives, used paper recycling additives described in JP-A No. 2002-275786, used paper recycling additives described in JP-A No. 2002-294586, bulking agents described in JP-A No. 2002-294594, JP-A No. 2003-96692 Paper bulking agent described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 2003-96693, paper recycling additive described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-96694, waste paper recycling additive described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-96695, Paper thickness improver described in JP-A-2003-171897, paper bulking agent described in JP-A-2003-247197, paper bulking agent described in JP-A-2003-253588, and JP-A-2003-253589 Paper bulking agent, paper bulking agent disclosed in JP-A-2003-253590, paper density reducing agent described in JP-A-2003-328297, JP-A-2003-3137 No. 9 paper densifying agent, paper making additive described in JP-A No. 2004-11058, paper density reducing agent described in JP-A No. 2004-27401, JP-A No. 2004-115935 described Paper densifying agent, paper bulking agent described in JP-A-2004-76244, paper modifier described in JP-A-2004-176213, paper softening agent described in JP-A-3522142, A bulk softening agent described in JP-A No. 2002-275792, a bulky sizing agent described in JP-A No. 2002-275792, a paper bulking agent described in JP-A No. 2003-286692, and JP-A No. 2004-270074. The paper bulking agent composition described in the above, and the paper bulking agent described in JP-A No. 2004-285490. A bulking agent for paper described in JP-A-2004-339629, a bulking agent described in JP-A-2005-54330, and a bulking agent described in JP-A-2005-68592.

  The bulking agent is usually added in a range of 0.2 to 20% by solid weight with respect to the raw material pulp. If the solid content is less than 0.2% by weight, the effect of reducing the density is small, and even if added in excess of 20% by solid weight, the bulky effect reaches its peak, so there is no meaning and the cost cannot be put into practical use. The bulking agent is preferably added after the raw material mixer and before the addition of the mixed particles composed of the inorganic particles of the present invention, the treatment agent, and other fillers.

  The paper machine used to make the electrophotographic transfer paper of the present invention is preferably an on-top former, a gap former or the like having a double-side dewatering mechanism in order to suppress the two-sided nature of the paper. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The press, calendar, etc. may be processed under conditions within the normal operating range.

  The production of the electrophotographic transfer paper of the present invention requires an external coating of a surface treatment agent for the purpose of enhancing the surface strength. Drugs to be applied include raw starch, oxidized starch, esterified starch, cationized starch, heat-modified starch, enzyme-modified starch, aldehyde-modified starch, hydroxyethylated starch and other modified starches, carboxymethylcellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose, methylcellulose, etc. Cellulose derivatives, modified alcohols such as polyvinyl alcohol, carboxyl-modified polyvinyl alcohol, styrene butadiene copolymer, polyvinyl acetate, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidene chloride, polyacrylate, polyacrylamide Etc. alone or in combination.

In addition to the above-mentioned agents, external surface coating agents can be used in combination with common surface sizing agents such as styrene acrylic acid, styrene maleic acid, and olefinic compounds. Therefore, a very good surface strength can be obtained. The reason is that since the pre-aggregated filler in the present invention is cationic, the cationic surface sizing agent is applied with the sizing agent remaining on the surface, and the paper size is improved. If the size property is improved, the pen writing sizing degree, which is often required for electrophotographic transfer paper, can be increased.
In addition, in the electrophotographic transfer paper of the present invention, an inorganic conductive agent such as sodium chloride, sodium sulfate or potassium chloride or an organic conductive agent such as dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate is externally added to control electrical resistance. The coating agent and coating amount in that case may be appropriately adjusted.

When a surface coating agent composed of a surface paper strength agent and a surface sizing agent is applied to paper, the mixing ratio and the coating amount of the surface paper strength agent and the surface sizing agent may be within a known range, and there is a particular limitation. Absent. The apparatus for applying the surface coating agent may be a publicly used apparatus and is not particularly limited, but a film transfer type such as a shim sizer or a gate roll size press is preferable.
The basis weight of the obtained electrophotographic transfer paper may be in the range of 40 to 80 g / m 2, and may be a level having a friction coefficient of a normal electrophotographic transfer paper. The electrophotographic transfer paper of the present invention can also be used as an inkjet recording paper.

(Example)
EXAMPLES Hereinafter, although an Example and a comparative example are given and this invention is demonstrated more concretely, naturally this invention is not limited to these.
In the examples and comparative examples, “parts” and “%” indicate parts by weight and% by weight unless otherwise specified.

<Pre-flocculation filler adjustment method>
The pre-agglomerated filler was obtained by mixing the treating agent and filler in water using a static mixer.
The average particle size of the filler and the pre-agglomerated filler was measured with a master sizer 2000 manufactured by Malvern Instruments. The measurement principle is a laser diffraction method.
Hereinafter, synthesis examples of amphoteric or cationic acrylamide copolymers (PAM-1, PAM-2) and anionic acrylamide copolymers (PAM-3) as raw materials for the composite PAM of the present invention will be described.

[PAM-1]
670 parts of water, 262 parts of 50% aqueous acrylamide solution, 18.6 parts of 60% methacryloyloxyethyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride, 9.2 parts of dimethylaminopropylacrylamide, 3.9 parts of itaconic acid, 0.1 part of methylenebisacrylamide, A mixture of 0.5 parts of sodium allyl sulfonate was adjusted to pH 3 with 10% sulfuric acid.
Next, the temperature was raised to 60 ° C., 16 parts of 2% aqueous ammonium persulfate solution and 4 parts of 2% aqueous sodium sulfite solution were added, and the mixture was reacted at a temperature of 60 to 85 ° C. for 3 hours to obtain PAM-1.

[PAM-2]
670 parts of water, 262 parts of 50% acrylamide aqueous solution, 40.5 parts of 60% methacryloyloxyethyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride, 18.9 parts of dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate, 6.2 parts of 98% acrylic acid, sodium methallylsulfonate 0 .5 parts of the mixture was adjusted to pH 3 with 10% sulfuric acid.
Next, the temperature was raised to 60 ° C., 16 parts of 2% aqueous ammonium persulfate solution and 4 parts of 2% aqueous sodium sulfite solution were added, and the mixture was reacted at a temperature of 60 to 85 ° C. for 3 hours to obtain PAM-2.

[PAM-3]
A mixture of 670 parts of water, 262 parts of 50% aqueous acrylamide solution, 33.2 parts of 98% acrylic acid and 0.5 parts of sodium allyl sulfonate was adjusted to pH 3 with 10% sulfuric acid.
Next, the temperature was raised to 60 ° C., 16 parts of 2% aqueous ammonium persulfate solution and 4 parts of 2% aqueous sodium sulfite solution were added, and the mixture was reacted at a temperature of 60 to 85 ° C. for 3 hours to obtain PAM-3.
Next, an example in which PAM-1, PAM-2 obtained in Synthesis Examples 1 and 2 above and anionic polysaccharide (CMC) are mixed and adjusted to produce complex PAM-C1 will be described.
In addition, an example in which PAM-2 (amphoteric PAM) and PAM-3 (anionic PAM) obtained in Synthesis Example 3 above are mixed and adjusted to produce complex PAM-C2 without using an anionic polysaccharide. To state.

[Composite PAM1 (PAM-C1)]
CMC (anionic polysaccharide: component A) and PAM-1 (component B) were each mixed as a 1% solution at a weight ratio of A / B = 15/85 to obtain PAM-C1 (complexed PAM).
[Composite PAM2 (PAM-C2)]
Without using an anionic polysaccharide (CMC), the amphoteric PAM (PAM-2: B component) and anionic PAM (PAM-3: B component) weight ratio of PAM-2 / PAM-3 = 85/15 To obtain PAM-C2.
Next, the preparation method of the pre-aggregation filler which mixed composite PAM and the filler is shown.

[Pre-flocculated filler 1]
Heavy calcium carbonate (average particle size 1.5μm) as filler and composite PAM-C1 as pretreatment, pre-aggregation at a mixing ratio of heavy calcium carbonate / PAM-C1 = 100 / 0.7, and reserve with average particle size 27μm An agglomerated filler was obtained.

[Pre-flocculated filler 2]
Filler is light calcium carbonate (Rosetta type, average particle size 3μm), treatment agent is combined PAM-C1, pre-aggregated at a mixing ratio of heavy calcium carbonate / PAM-C1 = 100 / 0.7, average particle size 38μm A pre-agglomerated filler was obtained.

[Pre-flocculated filler 3]
Filler is light calcium carbonate (Rosetta type, average particle size 3μm), treatment agent is composite PAM-C1, pre-aggregation with light calcium carbonate / PAM-C1 = 100 / 0.2 mixing ratio, and reserve with average particle size 14μm An agglomerated filler was obtained.

[Pre-flocculated filler 4]
Filler is light calcium carbonate (Rosetta type, average particle size 3μm), treatment agent is combined PAM-C1, and pre-aggregation with light calcium carbonate / PAM-C1 = 100 / 2.5 mixing ratio. An agglomerated filler was obtained.

[Pre-flocculated filler 5]
Filler is light calcium carbonate (Rosetta type, average particle size 3μm), treatment agent is composite PAM-C1, pre-aggregation with light calcium carbonate / PAM-C1 = 100 / 0.05 mixing ratio, and reserve with average particle size 8μm An agglomerated filler was obtained.

[Pre-flocculated filler 6]
Filler is light calcium carbonate (Rosetta type, average particle size 3μm), treatment agent is composite PAM-C2, pre-aggregation with light calcium carbonate / PAM-C2 = 100 / 0.7 mixing ratio, and reserve with average particle size 8μm An agglomerated filler was obtained.

[Pre-flocculated filler 7]
The filler was light calcium carbonate (Rosetta type, average particle size 3 μm), the treating agent was CMC, and pre-aggregated at a light calcium carbonate / CMC = 100 / 0.7 mixing ratio to obtain a pre-agglomerated filler having an average particle size of 5 μm.

After preparing the above pre-agglomerated filler, add the pre-agglomerated filler to the raw pulp slurry (LKP / DIP = 70/30, cation requirement 18μeq / l), and speed of 1,000m using on-top former type paper machine A sheet of electrophotographic transfer paper with a basis weight of 64.0g / m2 is made per minute, and the surface paper strength agent or surface coating agent (surface paper strength agent or surface paper strength agent + surface sizing agent) with an on-machine shim sizer. ) And 1.5 g / m 2 of sodium chloride (conductive agent) were coated on both sides to obtain a transfer paper for electrophotography.
Examples 1-5, Comparative Examples 1-6. With respect to this electrophotographic transfer paper, the number of peels generated, the number of jams, and the amount of paper dust were measured by a tearing length and a printing test using a copying machine.

<Measurement item>
(1) Breaking length: Compliant with JIS P 8113 (2) Jam count, paper dust amount, and printing evaluation method Monochrome printing at a speed of 55 sheets / min with A4 landscape paper using the Fuji Xerox copying machine “Vivace555” The number of jam occurrences when 1000 sheets were printed was counted, and the amount of paper dust was measured. Printing evaluation was performed by visual evaluation of the degree of toner transfer. The evaluation results are shown in Table 1 (◯: good, Δ: slightly good, x: bad).
(3) Peel evaluation method Using a Fuji Xerox copier DC135, monochrome printing was performed at a speed of 135 sheets / minute on A4 landscape paper, and the number of peeled sheets when 1000 sheets were printed was counted. The evaluation results are shown in Table 1.

[Example 1]
A paper stock obtained by adding the pre-aggregated filler 2 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was made, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 15%.

[Example 2]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 2 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 30%. .

[Example 3]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 1 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain a transfer paper for electrophotography having an ash content of 15%. .

[Example 4]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 4 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 15%. .

[Example 5]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 3 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain a transfer paper for electrophotography having an ash content of 15%. .

[Comparative Example 1]
Paper stock made by adding light calcium carbonate for pre-flocculated filler 2 and composite PAM separately in the head box to the raw pulp slurry was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent. An electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 15% was obtained. The ratio of light calcium carbonate and composite PAM was the same as the ratio of pre-aggregated filler 2.

[Comparative Example 2]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 2 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain a transfer paper for electrophotography having an ash content of 2%. .

[Comparative Example 3]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 2 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 50%. .

[Comparative Example 4]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 5 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 15%. .

[Comparative Example 5]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-aggregated filler 6 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 15%. .

[Comparative Example 6]
Paper stock obtained by adding the above-mentioned pre-flocculated filler 7 to the raw pulp slurry with a head box was coated, and heat-modified starch was applied as a surface paper strength agent to obtain an electrophotographic transfer paper having an ash content of 15%. .

In Examples 1 to 5, it was found that the paper strength, the number of peels generated, the number of jams, and the amount of paper dust were all good. From comparison between Example 1 and Comparative Example 1, it was found that the strength of the paper was improved when the agglomerated filler was added than when the filler and the treating agent were added separately. It was also found that jams do not occur because the rigidity is improved.
Further, from the comparison between Examples 1 and 2 and Comparative Examples 2 and 3, when the ash content in the electrophotographic printing paper is less than 3%, the printing evaluation is poor, and when the ash content in the paper exceeds 40%, the number of jams is large. There is a lot of paper dust.
In Comparative Example 4, a jam trouble occurred due to a decrease in rigidity because the amount of composite PAM added was small.
From the results of Comparative Examples 5 and 6, it was found that by adjusting the composite PAM only with A or B, the effect of improving the strength and rigidity was small, and both of them were poor in copyability.

Claims (5)

  Average particles by laser diffraction obtained by treating filler with a composite acrylamide copolymer comprising (A) anionic polysaccharide and (B) cationic and / or amphoteric acrylamide copolymer An electrophotographic transfer paper comprising a pre-aggregated filler having a diameter of 10 to 80 μm in paper and an ash content in the paper of 3 to 40% by solid weight.   2. The electrophotographic transfer paper according to claim 1, wherein the weight ratio of the component (A) to the component (B) is A / B = 2/98 to 45/55.   The addition amount of the composite acrylamide copolymer composed of the component (A) and the component (B) is 0.1 to 3.0% by weight based on the filler. The electrophotographic transfer paper described in 1.   The electrophotographic transfer paper according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the filler is calcium carbonate.   A filler made of pulp and filler is treated with a filler using (A) an anionic polysaccharide and (B) a complex acrylamide copolymer comprising a cationic and / or amphoteric acrylamide copolymer. A method for producing an electrophotographic transfer paper, wherein the resulting pre-aggregated filler is added, and the paper is made so that the ash content in the paper is 3 to 40% by weight.