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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1993
Pranab Bagchi, Webster, NY (US);
David S Bailey, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention discloses an aqueous-developable chromogenic photographic heat-transferable non-aqueous dye-diffusion-transfer photographic element comprising radiation sensitive silver halide, a dye-providing compound that forms or releases a heat-transferable, image dye upon reaction of said compound with the oxidation product of a primary amine developing agent, a hydrophilic binder, and a thermal solvent for facilitating non-aqueous diffusion transfer wherein said thermal solvent comprises a sugar group containing amphiphilic compound, said amphiphilic compound comprising from one to three independently constituted 3 to 22 carbon atom hydrophobic tail(s) with one or more attached hydrophilic mono or oligosaccaridic rings or chains such that the HLB value of the compound is less than about 13.