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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heinz Meckl, Bergisch-Gladbach, DE;
Erika Spriewald, Leverkusen, DE;
Gunter Renner, Bergisch-Gladbach, DE;
Assignee:
Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430372 ; 430380 ; 430393 ;
Abstract
A no-rinse processing method for the production of color photographic images comprising the steps of developing, bleaching, fixing and stabilizing, of which the bleaching and fixing steps may be combined into a bleach fixing step, gives dye images of satisfactory quality, even after prolonged use, if the stabilizing bath used in the stabilizing step contains an effective quantity of a pyrazole which, in one of the possible tautomeric forms, corresponds to the following general formula: ##STR1## in which X represents OH or NH.sub.2,