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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2000
Junji Ito, Hino, JP;
Kazuhiro Miyazawa, Hino, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The image forming method comprising the steps of subjecting a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising an yellow image forming layer, a magenta image forming layer and a cyan image forming layer to scanning exposure with a light beam so that an exposure time is not more than 10,second per pixel, and developing the photographic material by a color developer, wherein the maximum exposure amount (E,) is controlled by an output of a calibration patch, and a difference between the logarithm of the exposure amount necessary to give a density of 0.3 and the logarithm of E,is within the range of from 0.35 to 0.6 in each of the yellow, magenta and cyan image forming layers.