Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Eiichi Okutsu

Hiroyuki Mifune

Mitsunori Hirano

Katsumi Hayashi

Tomoyuki Ohzeki

Yoshitaka Akimura

Tadashi Ito

Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Tetsuro Kojima

Sumito Yamada

Shigenori Moriuchi

Morio Yagihara

Kazunobu Katoh

Shigeo Hirano

Nobuaki Inoue

Kohzaburoh Yamada

Seiji Yamashita

Shunji Takada

Mitsuo Saitou

Kouta Fukui

Takayoshi Oyamada

Senzo Sasaoka

Katsutoshi Yamane

Takashi Toyoda

Satoshi Aiba

Shinnichi Morishima

Yoo Iijima

Yoshihiro Takagi

Minoru Sakai

Kiyoshi Morimoto

Seiichi Yamamoto

Takahiro Goto

Isamu Itoh

Shoji Ishiguro

Rikio Inoue

Haruhiko Iwano

Nobuyuki Iwasaki

Shoji Yasuda

Takeo Sakai

Nobuo Sugiyama

Yutaka Oka

Yasuo Kasama

Yukihide Urata

Naomi Saeki

Kazumi Watase

Taiji Hashimura

Shinzaburo Onda

Kazue Sano

Mitsunori Sugiyama

Takashi Toyoda, Deceased

Harumi Toyoda, Deceased

Katsumi Hosoya

Hikoharu Hara

The present invention provides a heat developable photosensitive material comprising at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions and binder on one surface of a support.

Heat developable photosensitive material

The invention provides a photothermographic material including: a support and an image-forming layer including a non-photosensitive silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a reduction agent disposed on the support, wherein a silver iodide content in the photosensitive silver halide is in a range from 40 mol % to 100 mol %; and an average sphere-equivalent diameter of the photosensitive silver halide is in a range from 0.3 &#x3bc;m to 5.0 &#x3bc;m. The photothermographic material may further include a silver iodide complex forming agent as a compound which substantially reduces visible light absorption caused by the photosensitive silver halide after thermal development. At least 50%, in terms of a projected area, of the photosensitive silver halide may be occupied by tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of from 2 to 50 and being deposited with a silver salt in an epitaxial growth manner.

Photothermographic material and image forming method using same

The present invention provides an image forming method using an image recording apparatus that includes a laser irradiating means for laser scanning of a photothermographic material that has a support and includes on at least one surface thereof a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, and a conveying means for guiding the photothermographic material in a sub-scanning direction to a thermal development unit, wherein the reducing agent is a specific bisphenol compound. The invention also provides another image forming method including carrying out thermal development, with an interval time equal to or less than 12 seconds, of the photothermographic material.

Image forming method utilizing photothermographic material

A silver halide emulsion comprises at least a dispersion medium, water and a silver halide grain, wherein grains occupying from 40 to 100% of the total projected area of said gains have an AgI content of 85 to 100 mol %, a single kind of outer shape except for size and the equivalent-circle projected diameter of from 0.002 to 20 &#x3bc;m.

Silver halide emulsion and production process thereof

An image forming method using a photothermographic material a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, wherein: the photothermographic material is discharged from a thermal developing device within 35 seconds after heating for thermal development is ceased.

Image forming method using photothermographic material

A photothermographic material including a substrate carrying on one surface thereof an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content of 40 to 100 mol %, and an average particle size of 5 to 80 nm, and the photothermographic material contains a compound of the following general formula (1);Q-(Y)&#x2014;C(Z)(Z)X&#x2003;&#x2003;General formula (1)wherein Q represents a heterocycle, Y represents a divalent connecting group, n represents 0 or 1, Zand Zeach represent a halogen atom, and X represents a hydrogen atom or an electron withdrawing group.

Photothermographic material

A method for wrapping a heat-developable photosensitive material, which comprises bending a wrapping material so that the wrapping material can bring into direct contact with at least a part of a heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt having a silver behenate content of not lower than 53 mol % provided on one side of a support, wherein the wrapping material is a paper.

Method for wrapping heat-developable photosensitive material

Disclosed is a highly sensitive photothermographic material containing on a support a silver salt of an organic acid, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and, for example, a compound of which one-electron oxidized derivative produced by one electron oxidation of the compound is capable of releasing two or more electrons with a bond cleavage.

A processing composition for silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, which comprises at least one compound represented by the following formula (A), (A-I) or (A-II) and at least one compound represented by the following formula (B): ##STR1## Also disclosed are a developer prepared from the processing composition, and a processing method using the developer.

Processing composition for silver halide photographic light-sensitive

When a double-sided photographic silver halide photosensitive element having a crossover light quantity of up to 15% is processed through an automatic processor, it is developed with a developer containing an ascorbic acid type developing agent. By restricting the drag-out of the developer to 1.0 ml or less per 10.times.12-inch size sheet, the photosensitive element can be processed and effectively dried so as to produce high-quality images free of residual color.

Method for processing photographic silver halide photosensitive element

A one-part liquid developer for a black and white silver halide photographic material, comprising:

Developer and fixing solution for silver halide photographic material

The invention provides a liquid developer for photographic silver halide photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer containing at least 50% based on the projected area of tabular silver halide grains with an aspect ratio of at least 3.0 and having a swelling factor of 130-250%. In the liquid developer containing ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof as a developing agent or preservative, a compound of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is a C1-C3 hydroxyalkyl group or C1-C3 alkyl group and R.sub.3 is a C1-C3 hydroxyalkyl group is added for preventing the developer from coloring with the lapse of time.

Liquid developer for photographic silver halide photosensitive material

Disclosed is a method for developing a silver halide photographic material, which comprises processing the silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, with a substantially hydroquinone-free developing solution containing (i) a compound represented by formula (A) as a developing agent, wherein at least 50% of the sum of the projected area of the silver halide grains are tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 3.0 or more, and said developing solution contains (ii) a compound represented by formula (B): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and ##STR2## wherein X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Y represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group, and M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal ion, a quaternary ammonium ion or a quaternary phosphonium ion.

Method for developing silver haide photographic material

A method for processing silver halide photographic materials comprising the step of: processing imagewise exposed silver halide photographic material using a developer containing at least one compound represented by general formula (X): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group containing from 2 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group containing from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group containing from 7 to 12 carbon atoms; or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are combined to form a ring; R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms: and n represents an integer from 3 to 20. A developer for processing silver halide photographic materials comprising at least one compound represented by general formula (X), described above. A silver halide photographic material comprising: at least one compound represented by general formula (X'): ##STR2## wherein R'.sub.1 and R'.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group containing from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group containing from 3 to 30 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group containing from 7 to 30 carbon atoms; or R'.sub.1 and R'.sub.2 are combined to form a ring; R.sub.3, R4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 are the same as described above; and n' represents an integer from 2 to 50. A method for processing silver halide photographic materials comprising the step of: processing imagewise exposed silver halide photographic material comprising at least one compound represented by general formula (X'), described above.

Method for processing silver halide photographic materials, and

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Eiichi Okutsu