Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fuji Photo Co., Ltd.

Takashi Naoi

Kunio Ishigaki

Akira Hatakeyama

Kimitaka Kameoka

Shigeki Yokoyama

Hidefumi Sera

Tomokazu Yasuda

Fujio Kakimi

Jun Yamaguchi

Shigetoshi Ono

Sumitaka Tatsuta

Masaki Satake

Ikutaro Horie

Tomoyuki Takiue

Satoshi Kanetake

Yasunobu Tanaka

Shinichi Hashimoto

Hisashi Okamura

Takeshi Mikami

Naohiko Sugimoto

Shuzo Suga

Nobuaki Miyasaka

Hiroshi Kawasaki

Takayuki Inayama

Masasi Ogawa

Junichi Kose

Sumio Nishikawa

Takashi Fujioka

Motoharu Komori

Nobuyuki Seto

Masamichi Shimazaki

Yoshiyasu Matsuzaki

Miyuki Endo

Yuzou Muramatsu

Ikutard Horie

Hukuji Sakakibara

A heat-developable image-recording material which is heat-developed at a development temperature of from 80&deg; C. to 140&deg; C., and comprises, on both sides of a support, undercoat layers comprising a vinylidene chloride copolymer containing at least 70% by weight of vinylidene chloride monomer repeating units and having a thickness of 0.3 &mgr;m or more for each.

Heat-developable image-recording material

Thermally processed image recording material

A heat developing method conveying, to make a heating processing on a heater surface, a heat developable image recording material is disclosed in which an image forming layer and a protection layer are formed using a polymer latex as a binder on one side of a support made prepared by subjecting a polyester biaxially drawn and crystallized with orientation to a thermal relaxation processing at a temperature equal to or higher than 130&deg; C. and equal to or lower than 200&deg; C. at a conveyance tension of 7 kg/cm or lower and in which a back layer is formed using a polymer latex as a binder on the other side of the support, the method comprising the steps of: preparing at least two heaters for providing heating processing at a prescribed temperature to the heat developable image recording material disposed securely in line in a conveyance direction of the heat developable image recording material; conveying the heat developable image recording material with a conveying means by sliding the heat developable image recording material on surfaces of the heaters; and thermally processing the heat developable image recording material by pressing at least a part of the heat developable image recording material during conveyance with a pressing means against the surfaces of the heaters.

Heat developing method for heat developable image recording material

In a thermographic image-recording element comprising an image-forming layer and a protective layer on one side of a support, and optionally a back layer on the opposite side of the support, a polymer latex is used as a binder in each of the image-forming layer, the protective layer, and the back layer. The element experiences a minimized dimensional change before and after heat development. No wrinkling occurs upon heat development.

Thermographic image-recording elements

A silver halide photographic material which has an excellent dimensional stability and which is easy in the register operation is disclosed. The silver halide photographic material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the total amount of gelatin in the total hydrophilic colloid layers on the side having said emulsion layer and the total hydrophilic colloid layers on the opposite side thereto is 6 g/m.sup.2 or less, and the support is a styrene type polymer having a syndiotactic structure.

Silver halide photographic material

A silver halide photographic material has provided on a support a non-light-sensitive surface layer which contains an organic polymer represented by formula (I) and having a mean grain size of 1.0 .mu.m or more, the polymer being produced by suspension polymerization: ##STR1## wherein A is a repeating unit obtained by polymerization of at least one monomer having two or more copolymerizable ethylenic unsaturated groups; B is a repeating unit obtained by polymerization of at least one monomer having one copolymerizable ethylenic unsaturated group; and x, y and z each represents a weight percentage, x is a number of from 1 to 40, y is a number of from 30 to 99 and z is a number of from 0 to 65. The material has good vacuum contact adhesiveness in contact exposures, and the transparency of the processed material is good.

There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material having the improved drying, anticurl and pin hole properties. The photographic material comprises (a) a support, (b) at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing hydrophilic colloid as a binder provided on one side of the support (side A), and (c) at least one light-insensitive layer containing hydrophilic colloid as a binder provided on the side of the support opposite from the side with the silver halide emulsion layer (side B), wherein a weight ratio of the hydrophilic colloid contained in the at least one light-insensitive layer on side B to the hydrophilic colloid in the at least one silver halide emulsion layer on side A is 0.3 or greater, and the light-insensitive layer on side B has a water content of 0.2 g or less per gram of hydrophilic colloid after finishing a rinsing step in development processing.

A silver halide photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a polyester film support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer, at least one layer of which is a silver halide emulsion layer and at least one layer of which is a polymer latex-containing hydrophilic colloid layer, said polyester film support having coated on each side thereof a vinylidene chloride copolymer having a weight average molecular weight not more than 45,000, said vinylidene chloride copolymer being a core/shell type latex, said core part containing at least one of each type of repeating unit represented by formulae (I) and )II) and the said shell part containing at least one of each type of repeating unit represented the formulae (I), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## wherein A.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a halogen atom, A.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or phenyl group, A.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a --CH.sub.2 COOM group, A.sup.5 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a --COOM group, A.sup.6 represents a --COOM group or an alkoxycarbonyl group, phenyl group or N-alkylcarbamoyl group which is substituted with a --COOM group, and M represents a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal atom.

Silver halide photosensitive material

A silver halide photographic material is described composed of a polyester support having a hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a polymer latex on at least one side thereof, wherein the polyester support has a subbing layer having a thickness of 0.3 .mu.m or more and containing a vinylidene chloride copolymer composed of at least (1) from 70 to 99.9% by weight of a vinylidene chloride monomer and (2) from 0.1 to 5% by weight of a vinyl monomer having at least one carboxyl group, the subbing layer further containing a compound represented by formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 each represents a chlorine atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, --OM (wherein M represents a monovalent metal atom), --NR'R', or --NHCOR'' (wherein R', R', and R'' each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group); Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 each represents --O--, --S--, or --NH--; L represents a divalent linking group selected from an alkylene group, an arylene group, and a combination thereof; and l and m each represents 0 or 1. The silver halide photographic material has excellent dimensional stability and improved adhesion between a support and a photographic layer provided thereon.

Silver halide photographic material having polyester support with

A silver halide photographic material composed of a polyester film support having thereon at least one hhydrophilic colloid layer containing a polymer latex; and between the support and the hydrophilic colloid layer a layer containing a vinylidene chloride copolymer core-shell latex; at least one hydrophilic colloid layer of the material being a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The photographic material has superior dimensional stability after processing.

Silver halide photographic material containing an interlayer containing

A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, having at least one hydrophilic colloid layer comprising a polyester support and having a polymer latex on at least one side of said polyester support, wherein both surfaces of said support are coated with a polymer layer comprising a copolymer containing from 50 to 99.5% by weight vinylidene chloride and wherein both polymer layers have a thickness of at least 0.3 .mu.m. A method for treating the silver halide photographic material is also disclosed.

Silver halide photographic element with polyester base

Method of making a rolled silver halide element

In a method of drying a photoraphic light-sensitive material by use of drying air, the amount of light-sensitive material which can be processed within a predetermined time at a set temperature of the drying air is compared with the totalized amount of the light-sensitive material to be actually processed within the predetermined time, and, on the basis of the result of this comparison, the set temperature of the drying air can be adjusted. An apparatus for drying photographic light-sensitive material by use of drying air is arranged so that the amount of light-sensitive material to be actually processsed within a predetermined time, is detected by a detecting sensor and the thus-detected amount is compared with the amount of light-sensitive material which can be dried. If the amount of light-sensitive material to be actually processed exceeds the amount of light-sensitive material which can be processed, such a display is conducted that the apparatus is not ready for insertion of further light-sensitive material. Accordingly, the light-sensitive material can consistently be dried at a proper drying temperature.

Method of and apparatus for drying photographic light-sensitive material

In a method of drying a photographic light-sensitive material by use of drying air, the amount of light-sensitive material which can be processed within a predetermined time at a set temperature of the drying air is compared with the totalized amount of the light-sensitive material to be actually processed within the predetermined time, and, on the basis of the result of this comparison, the set temperature of the drying air can be adjusted. An apparatus for drying photographic light-sensitive material by use of drying air is arranged so that the amount of light-sensitive material to be actually processed within a predetermined time is detected by a detecting sensor and the thus-detected amount is compared with the amount of light-sensitive material which can be dried. If the amount of light-sensitive material to be actually processed exceeds the amount of light-sensitive material which can be processed, such a display is conducted that the apparatus is not ready for insertion of further light-sensitive material. Accordingly, the light-sensitive material can consistently be dried at a proper drying temperature.

A silver halide photographic material having a high covering power with improved pressure resistance and antistatic properties upon development, which comprises at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer disposed on at least one side of a support, wherein at least one of the silver halide photographic emulsion layer(s) contains a photosensitive silver halide emulsion containing silver iodide and an internally fogged silver halide emulsion, and at least one of the silver halide photographic emulsion layer(s) and an auxiliary layer(s) which is disposed on the same side of the support as that of the support having said emulsion containing silver iodide contains at least one polyoxyethylenic surface active agent selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula (I) and (II) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.6, R.sub.8, R.sub.10, and R.sub.12 each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, aryl group alkoxy group, or aryloxy group, a halogen atom, an acyl group, an amido group, a sulfonamido group, a carbamoyl group, or a sulfamoyl group, R.sub.5, R.sub.7, R.sub.9 and R.sub.11 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, aryl group alkoxy group, or aryloxy group, a halogen atom, an acyl group, an amido group, a sulfonamido group, a carbamoyl group, or a sulfamoyl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, aryl group, or heterocyclic aromatic ring, or groups in at least one combination of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8, R.sub.9 and R.sub.10, and R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 are connected to each other to form a substituted or unsubstituted ring; n.sub.1, n.sub.2, and n.sub.3 each represents the average polymerization degree of ethylene oxide within the range of from 5 to 50; and m represents an average polymerization degree of from 5 to 50.

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Takashi Naoi