Agfa-gevaert Ag

Willibald Pelz

Karl Lohmer

Karlfried Wedemeyer

Wolfgang Himmelmann

Erwin Ranz

Heinz Meckl

Alfons Klein

Fritz Nittel

Helmut Haseler

Hans-Heinrich Credner

Rudolf Meyer

Werner Liebe

Wolfgang Sauerteig

Walter Schulte

An image receptor element for the dye diffusion transfer process contains an image-receiving layer, which has increasing dye absorption capacity with increasing distance from the light-sensitive layers. Such an image-receiving layer may be obtained by use of mordants in concentrations which increase with increasing distance from the light-sensitive layers or by use of at least two mordants of different dye absorption capacity, the mordant of higher dye absorption capacity being arranged in a partial layer of the image-receiving layer further away from the light-sensitive layers. Such image receptor elements provide higher dye densities with lower total concentrations of mordants.

Image receptor element for the dye diffusion transfer process

Color images are obtained by chromogenic development of a colorphotographic material comprising several differently spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsions and color couplers associated thereto, a hydrophobic cyan coupler being incorporated by means of a hydrophobic coupler solvent and a hydrophobic yellow coupler being incorporated without a coupler solvent, when a color developing composition is used comprising a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic color developer compound. The color images have good stability of the cyan partial image to tropical conditions and good lightfastness of the yellow partial image.

Color-photographic development process

In a process for hardening gelatine containing photographic layers, in particular multilayered photographic films, using conventional hardeners and quick acting hardeners, the surface of a layer which contains gelatine and complex forming organic or inorganic salts is exposed to the action of an aqueous solution containing a wetting agent and a quick acting hardener, the quantity of water applied with the solution being calculated so that the layer or multilayered film undergoes swelling to a certain extend, and the degree of swelling is maintained for a period from 10 to 200 seconds, whereupon the layer or multilayered film is dried at a temperature below 30.degree. C.

Process for hardening photographic layers containing gelatine

This invention relates to a color photographic material with at least one silver halide emulsion layer having improved stability against crystallization and which contains in dispersed form a open chain keto methylene coupler a naphtholic or pyrazolone color coupler substituted with a 2-cyclo-pentyl-4-t-butyl-phenoxy group in a non-coupling position.

Photographic silver halide material which contains color couplers

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Willibald Pelz