Konica Corporation

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Tawara Komamura

Tatsuo Tanaka

Norio Miura

Jiro Takahashi

Noritaka Nakayama

Masaru Iwagaki

Katsunori Katoh

Hidenobu Ohya

Yoriko Nakayama

Kiyoshi Sawada

Ken Okauchi

Ryuichiro Kobayashi

Satoshi Goto

Takashi Sasaki

Akira Kinoshita

Osamu Sasaki

Toyoaki Masukawa

Wataru Ishikawa

Toshihisa Takeyama

Katsunori Kato

Yoshihiko Suda

Sohei Goto

Akira Onishi

Junichi Kohno

Hiroyuki Kaguchi

Takao Abe

Kunihiro Koshizuka

Takeo Arai

Masaki Nakamura

Shigehiro Kitamura

Keiji Ohbayashi

Hidetaka Ninomiya

Satoru Ikeuchi

Fumio Ishii

Tatsuichi Maehashi

Masaru Tsuchiya

Shinri Tanaka

Hideaki Haraga

Hiroshi Watanabe

Kazuhiro Miyazawa

Noriyasu Kita

Daisuke Ishibashi

Nobuyuki Takiyama

Seiji Hidaka

Taketo Nozu

Kimie Tachibana

Naoshi Kunieda

Shunji Suginaka

Michiko Nagato

Hiroyuki Iizuka

Akira Onodera

Hitoshi Morimoto

Koichi Nakatani

Mari Honda

Yoriko Ikehata

Takao Nimura

Ssamu Sasaki

Kimie Hoshino

A method to recover the resources incorporated in a photographic material is disclosed. An exposed silver salt light-sensitive photographic material is subjected to color development processing; the obtained image information is optically read; digital image information is obtained by converting the read information to electrical signals, and the resulting image information is recorded on a recording medium, and resources incorporated in a photographic material is recovered from the processed photographic material.

Resources recovery method in a silver salt photographic system

Disclosed is a metal chelate dye which is composed of a metal ion and a ligand that is a methine dye having 2 or more bonding positions capable of coordinate bond to the metal ion at the bonding position. A thermal transfer recording material, an ink used for an ink jet image recording process and a color toner for electrostatic image recording process are also disclosed.

Metallic chelating dye

A thermal transfer recording material is disclosed, comprising an azomethine dye represented by the following formula and a metal ion-containing compound. ##STR1##

Thermal transfer recording material

A recording method comprising the step of ejecting an ink jet recording ink on an ink receiving material using an ink jet printer, the ink comprising a dye represented by the following Formula (1): ##STR1##

Ink jet recording ink and recording method employing the same

Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one side thereof hydrophilic colloid layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers contains a redox compound having at least one carbonyl group, wherein said redox compound is capable of being oxidized with an oxidized product of a developing agent in a photographic processing so as to release a development inhibitor, and wherein said redox compound satisfies the following Formulae 1 through 3: Formula 1 development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (A).gtoreq.4.5, Formula 2 development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (B)&lt;15.0, Formula 3 development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (A)&gt;development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under condition (B).

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

An image forming dye and a heat sensitive transfer material comprising the same are disclosed, the dye being represented by the following Formula (1): ##STR1##

Dye and heat sensitive transfer material comprising the same

Disclosed is an image forming method which has the steps of:

Thermal transfer recording material and image forming method

An image forming element and an image forming method using the same are disclosed. The element comprises a support having thereon a image forming layer comprising a binder, an aromatic aldehyde, a cobalt (III) complex represented by formula I, and a compound represented by formula II or formula III;

Image forming element and image forming method

A thermal transfer recordimg material comprising a support having thereon a thermal transfer layer containing a dye represented by the following formula and a thermal transfer recording process capable of recording magenta images by forming a chelate dye in the presence of a metallic ion-containing compound ##STR1##

Thermal-transfer recording material and a thermal-transfer recording

An image forming element utilizing the photoreduction of a cobalt complex is disclosed. The image forming element comprises a support having thereon a layer comprising a cobalt complex compound represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2; ##STR1## wherein lig is a coordinating compound capable of forming a cobalt complex compound with a cobalt cation; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each independently an aryl group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a heterocyclic group or a cyano group, provided that at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a heterocyclic group or a cyano group, the above groups represented by R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 or R.sup.4 are each may have a substituent; X is a monovalent or bivalence anion; m is 1, 2 or 3, when m is 2 or 4, a plurality of lig may be the same or different; n is 2 or 3; and s is 0, 1 or 2; and m, n and s are selected so as the valence of the cobalt complex compound to be zero; ##STR2## wherein Dlig is a coordination compound capable of forming a cobalt complex compound with a cobalt cation; p is 1, 2 or 3, when p is 2 or 3 a plurality of Dlig may be the same or different, provided that at least one of Dlig is a coodination compound having a moiety of a dye or a moiety of a dye precuror; R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are each independently an aryl group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a heterocyclic group or a cyano group, groups represented by R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 each may have a substituent; q is 1, 2 or 3; X is a monovalent or bivalent; r is 0, 1 or 2; and p, q and r are selected so that the valence of the cobalt complex compound to be zero.

Image forming element

A thermal transfer recording material comprises a support and provided thereon, a layer containing a binder and a metal ion providing compound represented by the following Formula ( I ):

Thermal transfer image recording material and image using metal ion

An image forming process of an image forming material comprising a support and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer and a covering layer in that order comprises imagewise exposing the material by laser beam scanning, and peeling the covering film from the exposed material to form an image on the support or on the covering film, wherein said photosensitive layer contains a colorant, an addition-polymerizable or cross-linkable compound and a salt of a cationic dye with a borate anion represented by the following Formula (1): Formula (1) ##STR1##

Method of forming images

A photographic image-bearing recording member and a manufacturing method of it are disclosed. The recording member comprises

Photographic-image-bearing recording member and method of its preparation

Disclosed is a heat-sensitive transfer recording material having a colorant layer containing a colorant transferable by heat, wherein a compound represented by the formula [I] shown below is contained in said colorant layer and/or a layer adjacent to said colorant layer: ##STR1## [wherein M.sup.2+ represents a chelatable metal ion, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represent hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a monovalent organic group, X represents ##STR2## --OR.sup.5 and hydroxyl group (where R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 each independently represent an alkyl group which may also have a substituent), Y represents a 6-membered nitrogen containing aromatic heterocyclic ring together with ##STR3## Z represents an anion, m represents 1 or 2 and n represents 1 or 2].

Heat-sensitive transfer recording material

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