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Image-forming process

Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1986-10-15
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Granted: 1987-09-22
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Expires: 2006-10-15
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Abstract

Abstract An image-forming process is disclosed, which comprises exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains having a diameter-to-thickness ratio of 5 or more, subjecting the exposed photographic material to color development processing, then processing the photographic material in a bath mainly having a bleaching ability and successively in a bath having a bleach-fixing ability.

Inventors

  • 👤 Akira Abe
  • 👤 Junya Nakajima
  • 👤 Toshihiro Nishikawa

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-08 10:35
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C7/00; G03C7/30; G03C7/42

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim 70 words
An image-forming process, which comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains having a diameter-to-thickness ratio of 5 or more, subjecting the exposed photographic material to color development processing, then processing the photographic material in a bath mainly having a bleaching ability and successively in a bath having a bleach-fixing ability.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 70 words
An image-forming process, which comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains having a diameter-to-thickness ratio of 5 or more, subjecting the exposed photographic material to color development processing, then processing the photographic material in a bath mainly having a bleaching ability and successively in a bath having a bleach-fixing ability.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 37 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 1, wherein said bath mainly having a bleaching ability contains a bleaching agent selected from the group consisting of red prussiates, dichromates, persulfates, inorganic ferric salts and organic ferric salts.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 18 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 2, wherein said bleaching agent is a ferric aminopolycarboxylate complex salt.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 42 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 2, wherein said bleaching agent is present in an amount of about 0.1 to about 1 mol per liter of bleaching solution, and the pH of the bleaching solution is about 4.0 to about 8.0.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 64 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 1, wherein said bath mainly having a bleaching ability and/or said bath having a bleach-fixing ability contains a bleaching accelerator selected from the group consisting of mercapto compounds, disulfido bond-containing compounds, thiazolidine derivatives, thiourea derivatives and isothiourea derivatives in an amount from about 1 times 10 -5 to about 10 -1 mol per liter of the bath.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 22 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 1, wherein said diameter-to-thickness ratio of said tabular silver halide grains is 5 to 20.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 29 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises a water-washing step after processing said material in the bleaching bath and before processing in the bleach-fixing bath.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 21 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises washing with water and stabilizing said material following bleach-fixing processing.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 24 words
An image-forming process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing solutions are used at temperatures of about 10° C. to about 50° C.

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