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John M Buchanan

Richard P Szajewski

Anne E Bohan

Stuart T Gordon

Sidney J Bertucci

William J Begley

Philip T Lau

Wojciech K Slusarek

Keith H Stephen

Michael J Carmody

Eric R Brown

Gary S Proehl

Stephen P Singer

David T Southby

Terrence Robert O'Toole

Jared B Mooberry

Shirleyanne E Haye

David Leroy Cole

William N Washburn

Ewell R Cook

Silver bromide color negative films can be rapidly processed using shortened color development times and specific amounts of color developing agent and bromide ion. After development, and optionally desilvering or fixing, the developed film is scanned to form density representative digital signals for the color records. These signals are then digitally manipulated to correct both interimage interactions and gamma mismatches around the color records to produce a digital record that is capable of providing a display image having desired aim color and tone scale reproduction. That digital record can then be stored or used to provide corrected display images, such as color prints, using output display devices.

Rapid image presentation method employing silver bromide tabular grain

A color corrected display image can be rapidly provided by color developing an imagewise exposed, duplitized color photographic element, scanning the developed image to form digital signals, and digitally manipulating those signals to correct either interimage interactions and/or gamma mismatches among at least two color recording units. The color corrected image can be provided in any desired form. The duplitized elements have at least one light-sensitive silver halide imaging layer on each side of the support.

Method for providing a color display image using duplitized color silver

A composition for bleaching or bleach-fixing a silver halide photographic material has a pH of from 2 to 9. The composition comprises a bleaching agent which is either a persulfate or polyvalent metal complex of an aminopolycarboxylic acid, and from 0.01 to 2M of a sulfo-substituted carboxylate represented by Formula I

Sulfo-substituted carboxylates as buffers for photographic bleaches and

A simple and effective bleaching method includes the use of a bleaching solution including a peroxide bleaching agent and chloride ion in an amount of at least 0.35 mol/l. An organic phosphonic acid or tertiary aminocarboxylic acid can also be present for stability. The method is useful for bleaching color photographic films containing at least 20 mol % silver bromide and from 0 to about 0.5 mol % silver iodide in at least one silver halide emulsion.

Method for processing color photographic films using a peroxide

A color image can be rapidly provided by color developing an imagewise exposed, duplitized color photographic element that has an ISO of at least 25. The duplitized elements have at least one light sensitive silver halide imaging layer or color recording unit on each side of the support.

Method for rapid processing of duplitized color silver halide

Silver chloride color negative films can be rapidly processed using shortened color development times and specific amounts of color developing agent and bromide ion. After development, and optionally desilvering or fixing, the developed film is scanned to form density representative digital signals for the color records. These signals are then digitally manipulated to correct both interimage interactions and gamma mismatches around the color records to produce a digital record that is capable of providing a display image having desired aim color and tone scale reproduction. That digital record can then be stored or used to provide corrected display images, such as color prints, using output display devices.

Rapid image presentation method employing silver chloride tabular grain

An improved image forming method is disclosed which comprises contacting both an originating photographic element and a display photographic element with substantially similar processing solutions. The originating photographic element is characterized in that it contains at least 50 mole percent silver chloride grains and no more than 2 mole percent silver iodide, based on total silver forming the grain projected area. The grains are tabular grains bounded by {100} faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 100 and each having an aspect ratio of at least 2.

Method of processing originating and display photographic elements using

A photographic bleaching or bleach/fixing composition contains a water-soluble ternary complex of an iron ion, a polycarboxylate ligand, and a second ligand which has at least one carboxyl group on an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle, such as a pyridinecarboxylic acid. Preferred materials are biodegradable, but all of the ternary complexes can be used in a variety of bleach or bleach/fix processes to good advantage as bleaching agents. They are particularly suitable for use in rehalogenating ferric chelate bleaches.

Photographic bleaching composition and processing method using ternary

This invention provides an accelerator for peracid bleaches used for bleaching silver halide photographic elements. The accelerator is a complex of ferric (Fe III) ion and a 2-pyridinecarboxylic acid or a 2,6-pyridinecarboxylic acid. The accelerator may be contained in the bleaching solution, a solution preceding the bleaching solution or in the photographic elements themselves.

Photographic peracid bleaches with ferric 2-pyridinecarboxylate and

A photographic peracid bleaching composition contains a peracid bleaching agent, and a water-soluble ternary complex of ferric ion, a polycarboxylate ligand, and a second ligand which has at least one carboxyl group on an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle, such as a pyridinecarboxylic acid. These complexes act as catalysts for the peracid bleaching agent. Preferred complexes are biodegradable, but all of the ternary complexes can be used in a variety of peracid bleaching processes to good advantage.

Photographic peracid bleaching composition and processing method using

This invention provides a method of processing a developed high iodide color silver halide photographic element by bleaching the element with a peracid bleach and fixing the element with a fixer containing sodium cation and thiosulfate, wherein the amount of ammonium ion in the fixer is less than 1.4M.

Method of bleaching and fixing a color photographic element containing

A method of desilvering an imagewise and developed color silver halide element, said method comprising bleaching the photographic element with a peracid bleach and subsequently contacting the photographic element with a fixer solution comprising thiosulfate anion and sodium cation;

Method of bleaching and fixing a color photographic element using a

Unique imagewise exposed and developed originating color silver halide photographic elements can be processed with bleaching and/or fixing solutions. The element is characterized by several important features. It contains a silver halide grain population of at least 50 mole percent chloride, based on total silver forming the grain population projected area, wherein at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by intrinsically stable tabular grains (1) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10, and (2) an aspect ratio of at least 2. Also, at least 50 mole % of the element silver halide is silver chloride, and no more than 2 mole % silver iodide. It also contains a bleach accelerator releasing compound. The element is also free of a desilvering rate retarding amount of a development inhibitor releasing compound having a free sulfur valence which binds to silver.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

John M Buchanan