Konica Corporation

Hideki Komatsu

Shoji Nishio

Satomi Kawasaki

Masayuki Kurematsu

Yasuhiko Takamuki

Kazuyoshi Goan

Kazuhiko Hirabayashi

Hiroshi Yoshimoto

Hidetoshi Ezure

Tetsuo Shima

Shyouji Nishio

A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support (a) a light-insensitive organic silver salt, (b) light-sensitive silver halide and (c) a reducing agent capable of reducing a silver ion of the organic silver salt to silver upon heating, wherein when the exposed and thermally processed photothermographic material having a density of 3.0 have been kept at 50&deg; C. and 50% RH for 120 hr., the photothermographic material exhibits a variation of density from 3.0 being within &plusmn;0.2.

Silver salt photothermographic material

A thermally developable photosensitive material comprising organic silver salts, photosensitive silver halides, and reducing agents. The thermally developable photosensitive material has a support having am moisture content of not more than 0.5 percent by weight.

Thermally developable photosensitive material

A method for processing a black-white silver halide photographic light-sensitive material by an automatic processor comprising the following steps,

Method for processing black-white silver halide photographic

A processing method using an automatic processor is disclosed. The automatic processor is defined in the specification in detail. The processing is carried out employing a fixer having a salt concentration of 0.8 to 1.9 mole/l at a fixer replenisher rate of not more than 260 ml/m.sup.2.

Processing method of silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A solid developing composition for a silver halide black-and-white photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a developing agent selected from the group consisting of a dihydroxybenzene compound and a compound represented by formula (A), and the developing composition further comprising a compound represented by formula (1). ##STR1##

Developing composition for silver halide photographic light sensitive

A method of processing an exposed silver halide photographic light sensitive material is disclosed which comprises the steps of:

Method for processing silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A method of processing a photographic light-sensitive material comprising a backing layer on a support opposite an emulsion layer comprises the steps of exposing the material, developing the exposed material with developer, the developer being replenished with developer replenisher in an amount of not more than 200 ml per m.sup.2 of the material, and fixing the developed material,

Method of processing photographic light-sensitive material

A method of processing with a developer a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, the material comprising a support and provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains having not less than 90 mol % chloride, the emulsion layer or a hydrophilic colloid layer adjacent to the emulsion layer containing a tetrazolium compound, or a hydrazine derivative, and replenisher for developer being supplied to the developer in an amount of not more than 200 ml per m.sup.2 of the material processed, wherein the developer contains a carbonate salt in an amount of not less than 0.2 mol/liter.

Method of processing silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed which comprises the steps of: exposing the light-sensitive material; developing the exposed material with a developer; and replenishing the developer with a repleniser developer in amount of 200 ml or less per m.sup.2 of the material, said developer and replenisher developer are prepared by dissolving in water a solid photographic developing composition comprising a developing agent and a compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, a hydroxy group, a mercapto group, a carboxyl group, a sulfo group, a phosphono group, an amino group, a nitro group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group or a heterocyclic group, provided that R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine to form a ring.

Solid developing composition for silver halide photographic

A processing chemical for light-sensitive silver halide photographic material, comprising a cyclodextrin compound, which can contribute a decrease in packaging materials, transportation cost and storage space, can be free from lateral cracking at the formation of tablets, and can bring about an improvement in storage stability after being formed into processing solutions (i.e., more free from occurrence of stain during developing and scratches in light-sensitive materials having been processed, caused by deposition of crystals).

Solid processing compositions for light-sensitive silver halide

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which comprises a support and provided thereon, a silver halide photographic emulsion layer and a protective layer in that order, wherein at least one layer of said emulsion layer and said protective layer contains a cyclodextrin compound and said emulsion layer contains a hydrazine derivative or a compound represented by the following formula (T): ##STR1##

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