Eastman-Kodak Company

Alfred J Alton

Peter Jerome Cowdery-Corvan

Sharon M Melpolder

William F Smith

Michael W Martin

James P Beese

Juris L Ekmanis

James P Besse

Bruce J Henne

Leo J Magee, Jr

A method of obtaining a photothermographic or thermographic film with reduced fog, such as pepper fog, comprises preparing a dispersion of: an oxidation-reduction image-forming combination comprising: a silver behenate oxidizing agent the improvement wherein said oxidizing agent contains less than about 800 micrograms of polyunsaturated and 3800 micrograms of monounsaturated fatty acid silver salts per gram of oxidizing agent or the film contains less than about 100 micrograms of polyunsaturated and 400 micrograms of monounsaturated fatty acid silver salts per gram of melt in the film and an organic reducing agent with a synthetic polymer-peptized photosensitive silver halide, and a cyclic imide toner in a non-gelatin polymeric binder.

Photothermographic and thermographic films containing low levels of

A method of obtaining a photothermographic or thermographic film with reduced fog, such as pepper fog, comprises preparing a dispersion of: an oxidation-reduction image-forming combination comprising: a silver salt oxidizing agent and an organic reducing agent with: a synthetic polymer-peptized photosensitive silver halide, and a cyclic imide toner in a non-gelatin polymeric binder and mixing with said dispersion a sensitizing concentration of non-silver iodide salt formed from an ionic formate the improvement wherein said non-silver iodide salt contains less than about 100 micrograms of ionic formate per gram of iodide salt or the film contains less than about 0.5 micrograms of ionic formate per gram of emulsion in the film.

A method of making a thermally processable imaging element which comprises:

Thermally processable imaging element

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Hilton, NY, United States of America

Alfred J Alton