Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Kazuto Andoh

Takatoshi Ishikawa

Morio Yagihara

Hiroshi Fujimoto

Nobutaka Ohki

Nobuo Seto

Hideaki Naruse

Shinji Ueda

Masakazu Morigaki

Kiyoshi Morimoto

Noriyuki Inoue

Jiro Tsukahara

Tatsuo Heki

Toshio Koshimizu

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material including the step of developing the silver halide color photographic material with a color developing solution containing at least one aromatic primary amine developing agent and at least one hydrazide represented by the following formula (I) or (II)

Method of processing a silver halide color photographic material and a

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises the steps of developing the light-sensitive material with a color developer containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, desilvering, washing with water and/or stabilizing the material in which at least one processing solution used in at least one step of the processing contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of sulfinic acids and salts and precursors thereof. This method makes it possible to effectively prevent the formation of stains due to not only the components of the light-sensitive material per se but also those attributable to the processing solutions, during processing or storage with time, and to enhance the stability of processing solutions.

Method for processing silver halide color photographic light-sensitive

A silver halide color photographic material is processed with a color developer containing at least one compound of the following formula (I) and at least one compound of the following formula (II): ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group;

Method for processing silver halide color photographic materials

A method for forming a direct positive color image by image-wise exposing to light a light-sensitive material having at least one internal latent image type silver halide emulsion layer which is unfogged and color image-forming couplers on a support; either (1) subjecting the resulting material to fogging exposure to light and/or processing it with a nucleating agent before development, and then developing the resulting material with a surface developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent, or (2) developing the material after the image-wise exposure with a surface developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent under fogging exposure and/or in the presence of a nucleating agent; and bleach-fixing the resulting material, wherein the color developing solution contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following general formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## wherein X represents --CO--, --SO.sub.2 -- or ##STR2## and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represents various familiar group; ##STR3## wherein R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 represent various familiar groups; ##STR4## wherein R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 represent various familiar groups; ##STR5## wherein Y represents a trivalent atomic group necessary for completing a condensed ring, m represents an integer of 0 to 4, and n represents an integer of 1 to 5. Stability of the color developing solutions with time lapse is excellent, which makes stable continuous process of color photographic light-sensitive materials possible over a long period.

Method for forming a direct positive color image

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one pyrazoloazole magenta coupler represented by general formula (I), which comprises processing the light-sensitive material, after imagewise exposure, with a color developer containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and at least one member selected from among hydrazines and hydrazides represented by general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being eliminated by a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, Za, Zb and Zc each represents a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--, provided that one of the Za-Zb bond and the Zb-Zc bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond and, when Zb-Zc is a carbon-to-carbon double bond, it may be a part of an aromatic ring, and a dimer or higher polymer may be formed at R.sub.11 or X, or, when Za, Zb or Zc represents a substituted methine group, a dimer or higher polymer may be formed at the substituted methine group; ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a meterocyclic group, R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, a hydrazino group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a carbamoyl group or an amino group, X.sup.1 represents a divalent group, and n represents 0 to 1, provided that, when n is 0, R.sup.4 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and that R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may together form a heterocyclic ring.

Method for processing silver halide color photographic material

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a color coupler or color couplers, which comprises the step of, after imagewise exposing, developing said silver halide color photographic material with a color developing solution which does not substantially contain benzyl alcohol and which contains an aromatic primary amine color developing agent represented by formula (A): ##STR1## wherein X represents a compound capable of forming a salt with a primary amine; and a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy or amino group; and R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be bonded to each other to form a carbon ring or a hetero-ring. The color developing solution used in the present method has improved stability and color forming properties.

Method for processing a silver halide color photographic material using

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material including a step of developing the material with a developer containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and at least one compounds represented by the following general formulae (Ia) and (Ib): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or an unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7, which may be the same or different, each represents an unsubstituted alkylene group; X.sup.1 and X.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents ##STR2## --O--, --S--, --CO--, --SO.sub.2 or --SO--, or a combination thereof, and R.sup.8 represents a hydrogen atom or an unsubstituted alkyl group; and m and n, which may be the same or different, each is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and ##STR3## wherein R.sup.13 represents a substituted alkylene group; and R.sup.9, R.sup.10, R.sup.11 and R.sup.12, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group. The developer has superior stability and reduces fogging in continuous processing.

Method for processing a silver halide color photographic material and a

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material is described, which comprises treating said material after imagewise exposure with a color developer containing an aromatic primary amine developing agent and at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## in which X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents a divalent organic group. In accordance with this method, the stability and color-forming capacity of the color developer are remarkably improved, the increment of fog during continuous processing of photographic material is greatly reduced, and the color developer need not substantially contain benzyl alcohol.

A developing solution composition for a silver halide color photographic material is described, comprising an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sup.3 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group; and the total number of carbon atoms contained in R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is at least 3. The color developer composition has improved stability and color forming properties and remarkably limits fog formation during continuous processing. A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material including the step of developing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer with a developing solution comprising an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and a compound represented by formula (I) described above, and substantially no benzyl alcohol content, is also disclosed.

Color photographic developing solution composition and method for

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising the step of processing a silver halide color photographic material after imagewise exposure thereof with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine developing agent and at least one hydrazine compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, provided that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be linked to form a heterocyclic ring; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may be linked to form a heterocyclic ring; and at least two hydrazine moieties derived from the compound represented by formula (I) may be linked to form a dimer or polymer by any of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4.

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