Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Masaaki Miki

Junichiro Hosokawa

Yoichi Hosoya

Ryoji Nishimura

Takuya Arai

Yoichi Maruyama

Kouichi Yokota

Makoto Kikuchi

Mitsuo Saitou

Hideyuki Shirai

Koichi Yokota

Tetsuo Kikuchi

Shunji Takada

Mikio Ihama

Naotsugu Muro

Katsuhisa Ohzeki

Yuzo Toda

Tadanobu Sato

Naoharu Kiyoto

Kazuaki Oguma

Hirokazu Saito

Toshiyuki Nabeta

Katsuyuki Nukui

Keiichi Miyazaki

Yasushi Tanabe

Naohiro Takeda

Yoshiyasu Inami

Norihiro Omae

Kouchi Yokota

A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet having, on a support, at least one heat-insulating layer and at least one receiving layer on the heat-insulating layer, wherein the heat-insulating layer contains hollow polymer particles, gelatin and a latex having a glass transition temperature of from 30 to 85&#xb0; C., and the molecular chain of the polymer constituting the latex has a styrene recurring unit and a butadiene recurring unit.

Thermal transfer image-receiving sheet and method for producing same

A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having, on a support, at least one heat insulation layer and at least one receptor layer in this sequence, the receptor layer containing a latex polymer and a polyether-modified silicone represented by a specific formula, and the receptor layer containing at least one anionic surfactant represented by other two specific formulae.

Heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet

A method of image formation comprising putting a thermal transfer sheet and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet one upon another wherein the thermal transfer sheet has on a substrate film a subbing layer of a titanium oxide film, the dye layer on a part of the subbing layer and a transferable protective layer laminate on the other part of the subbing layer than the part for the dye layer thereon, and wherein the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet has on a support the receiving layer containing a polymer latex, in which vinyl chloride is polymerized in at least 95 mol % of all the polymerization monomers, and a polyether-modified silicone, and a heat-insulating layer; recording an image on the receiving layer by a heating device; and transferring at least a part of the transferable protective layer laminate onto the receiving layer by the heating device.

Image formation method using thermal transfer sheet and thermal transfer image-receiving sheet

Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which includes a support and at least one silver halide photosensitive layer on the support, wherein the average equivalent sphere diameter of the silver halide of the silver halide photosensitive layer is 0.30 &#x3bc;m or less, the silver halide photosensitive layer includes four or more kinds of silver halide grains having mutually different average equivalent sphere diameters, and the thickness between a surface of the support at a side at which the silver halide photosensitive layer is provided and a surface of the silver halide photosensitive layer at a side opposite to the support is 10 &#x3bc;m or less.

Silver halide photosensitive material and process of producing black and white image using the same

A silver halide photographic material, includes transparent support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the average equivalent-sphere diameter of the silver halide grains contained in each layers is 0.35 &#x3bc;m or less, and an upper layer of the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains a fixed magenta dye, an upper layer or the red-sensitive emulsion layer contains a fixed cyan dye, and the green-sensitive layer contains a pyrazolotriazole, pyrazolopyrrole or 4-thio-pyrazolo-5-one coupler having a specific structure, and an image-recording method uses the photographic material.

Silver halide photographic material and image forming method using the same

A silver halide photosensitive material comprising at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer and at least one red-sensitive layer on a transparent support, wherein a peak wavelength of spectral sensitivity of at least one of the green-sensitive layer is in the range of &#x2212;10 nm or more and +10 nm or less in comparison with a peak wavelength of a green light source for exposure.

Silver halide photosensitive material and image forming method using the same

A silver halide photosensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer, and at least one red-sensitive layer, on a transparent support, wherein at least one of the green-sensitive layers contains a coupler represented by general formula (I) or general formula (Z), and all of the green-sensitive layers contain silver halide emulsion having an average equivalent-spherical diameter of 0.35 &#x3bc;m or less: 

Silver halide photosensitive material and image-forming method using the same

An image-forming method of recording a digital image data in resolution of 2,000 dpi or more, the method comprising: recording a digital image data on a silver halide photographic material with little deterioration.

Silver halide photographic material and image-forming method using the same

A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein

Silver halide color photosensitive material

A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material containing at least one compound capable of increasing photographic speed, the compound having at least three heteroatoms in its molecule, and wherein at least one layer of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises an emulsion, the emulsion consisting of a lightsensitive silver halide emulsion wherein 50% or more in number of all the silver halide grains are occupied by tabular grains having (111) faces as main planes, the tabular grains (i) composed of silver iodobromide or silver chloroiodobromide, (ii) having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 &#x3bc;m or more and a thickness of 0.15 &#x3bc;m or less, and (iii) composed of core portions of 0.1 &#x3bc;m or less thickness free of growth ring structure and composed of silver iodobromide and shell portions having ten or more dislocation lines.

Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material

A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein 50% or more of the total number of all the silver halide grains are occupied by tabular grains satisfying the following requirements (i) composed of silver iodobromide or silver chloroiodobromide, and having (111) faces as main planes, (ii) having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 &mgr;m or more and a thickness of 0.1 &mgr;m or less, (iii) having 10 or more dislocation lines at a fringe portion thereof, and (iv) composed of a core portion substantially not containing any dislocation line and a shell portion containing dislocation lines, and the shell portion having a thickness of 0.01 &mgr;m or more as measured in a direction perpendicular to the main plane.

Silver halide photographic emulsion and silver halide photographic lightsensitive material containing the same

A producing method of a silver halide emulsion comprising the steps of adding silver halide fine grains AgX having an to a silver halide seed crystal emulsion containing at least water, dispersion medium 1 and silver halide crystal, and growing the seed crystal by dissolving the added AgX , wherein AgX are formed in dispersion medium solution 2 containing dispersion medium 2, the pH of dispersion medium solution 2 of the time when AgX are formed is from 7.3 to 12.2, the average equivalent-circle projected area diameter of AgX is from 0.001 to 0.2 &mgr;m, and AgX are non-twin crystal grains not substantially having twin planes.

Photographic silver halide emulsion

A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains is disclosed, which is obtained through a process including at least one step of forming grains using a dispersion medium having a low viscosity, wherein 50% or more of the entire projected area of all silver halide grains in the emulsion is occupied by silver halide tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 4 or more and a twin plane spacing of 0.012 &mgr;m or less. Further disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material using the emulsion.

Silver halide photographic emulsion and light-sensitive material containing the same

A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains, in the dispersion medium phase of the emulsion, one or more kinds of inorganic fine particles having a refractive index the total weight of the fine particles contained in the unit volume of the dispersion medium phase is from 1.0 to 95 wt %, the dispersion medium phase containing the fine particles is substantially transparent to the photosensitive peak wavelength light of the emulsion layer, and the photographic material is exposed and processed in the development process comprising at least a developing step and a fixing step.

Silver halide photographic material

Disclosed is a method for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising turning at least one of an aqueous solution of a silver salt and an aqueous solution of a halide into a linear jet stream having a high flow rate, and mixing the two kinds of solutions with each other for a short time, thereby continuously forming silver halide grains.

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Masaaki Miki