Process for silver development of photopolymerization prints and print forming element therefor

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SILVER IMAGES IN THE LIGHTSENSITIVE PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE RECEIVING LAYER OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC ELEMENT COMPRISING (A) IMAGE-WISE EXPOSING TO ACTINIC LIGHT SELECTED PORTIONS OF SAID LAYER, AND (B) CONTACTING SAID EXPOSED LAYER WITH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: (A) A PHOTOGRAPHIC PHYSICAL DEVELOPER AND (B) AN UNEXPOSED SILVER HALIDE EMULSION LAYER IN THE PRESENCE OF A PROCESSING SOLUTION COMPRISING A SILVER HALIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPING AGENT AND A SILVER HALIDE SOLVENT, SAID ELEMENT COMPRISING A SUPPORT AND SAID RECEIVING LAYER, SAID RECEIVING LAYER COMPRISING (1) AN ETHYLENICALLY-UNSATURATED, MONOMERIC COMPONENT HAVING UNIFORMLY DISPERSED THERETHROUGH (2) A COMPOSITION SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISING OF (C) A COMPOUND WHICH IS A CATALYST FOR BOTH PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION OF SAID MONOMERIC COMPONENT AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT FROM SAID SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, AND (D) A MIXTURE OF CATALYST FOR PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION WHICH IS NOT A CATALYST FOR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT FROM SILVER HALIDE AND A CATALYST FOR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT FROM A SILVER HALIDE EMULSION WHICH IS NOT A CATALYST OF PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION.