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Method for processing color photographic light-sensitive material
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1985-05-21
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Granted: 1986-11-04
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Expires: 2005-05-21
Abstract
Abstract A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material comprising subjecting an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to color development processing, then to processing with a bleaching solution and thereafter to separately, fixing processing wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a cyan dye forming coupler represented by the general formula (I-a) or (I-b) described below, the bleaching solution contains a compound represented by the general formula (II-a) or (II-b) described below and the processing time for the bleaching solution is substantially not more than 2 minutes and 30 seconds, ##STR1## wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 4 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; R 3 and R 6 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or an acylamino group, or R 3 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to form a nitrogen-containing 5-membered or 6-membered ring together with R 2 , R 5 presents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; Z 1 and Z 2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon the oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent; and n represents 0 or 1, ##STR2## wherein R 7 , R 8 , R 9 and R 10 , which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group or an acyl group, or R 7 , R 8 , R 9 and R 10 may connect to each other to form a ring; and m and each represents an integer of 1 to 3.
Inventors
- 👤 Shinzo Kishimoto
- 👤 Akira Abe
- 👤 Shigeru Ohno
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 09:05
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C7/00; G03C7/30; G03C7/42; G03C7/32; G03C7/34; G03C7/346
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 25
Claim 1
Independent Claim
225 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material comprising subjecting an image-wise exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to color development processing, then to processing with a bleaching solution and thereafter to separately fixing processing, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a cyan dye forming coupler represented by general formula (I-a) and the bleaching solution contains a compound represented by general formula (II-a): ##STR12## wherein R 1 and R 2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; R 3 represents a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or an acylamino group, or R 3 represents a nonmetallic atomic group necessary to form a nitrogen-containing 5-membered or 6-membered ring together with R 2 ; Z 1 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon the oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent; and n represents 0 or 1, ##STR13## wherein R 7 and R 8 , which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group or an acyl group, or R 7 and R 8 connect to each other to form a ring; and m represents an integer of 1 to 3.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
225 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material comprising subjecting an image-wise exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to color development processing, then to processing with a bleaching solution and thereafter to separately fixing processing, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a cyan dye forming coupler represented by general formula (I-a) and the bleaching solution contains a compound represented by general formula (II-a): ##STR12## wherein R 1 and R 2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; R 3 represents a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or an acylamino group, or R 3 represents a nonmetallic atomic group necessary to form a nitrogen-containing 5-membered or 6-membered ring together with R 2 ; Z 1 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon the oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent; and n represents 0 or 1, ##STR13## wherein R 7 and R 8 , which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group or an acyl group, or R 7 and R 8 connect to each other to form a ring; and m represents an integer of 1 to 3.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the aliphatic group represented by R 1 or R 2 is an aliphatic group having from 1 to 32 carbon atoms.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
104 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the substituent for the aliphatic group, the aryl group or the heterocyclic group represented by R 1 R 2 is selected from an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkenyloxy group, an acyl group, an ester group, an amido group, a sulfamido group, an imido group, an ureido group, an aliphatic or aromatic thio group, an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonyl group, a hydroxy group, a cyano group, a carboxy group, a nitro group, a sulfo group and a halogen atom.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
59 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein Z 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, a sulfonyloxy group, an amido group, an alkoxycarbonyloxy group, an aryloxycarbonyloxy group, an aliphatic or aromatic thio group, an imido group or an aromatic azo group.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
69 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R 1 is an aryl group substituted with one or more substituents selected from a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group, an acyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfamido group, an oxycarbonyl group and a cyano group.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R 2 is an alkyl group substituted with a substituted aryloxy group.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein Z 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group or a sulfonamido group.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R 7 and R 8 each represents a lower alkyl group or an acyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer is a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
44 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the amount of the compound represented by the general formula (II-a) in the bleaching solution is from 1×10 -5 to 1×10 -1 mol per liter of the bleaching solution.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
29 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bleaching solution further contains a bleaching agent comprising a ferric ion complex salt.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
44 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 11, wherein the ferric ion complex salt is a complex of ferric ion and a chelating agent which is selected from an aminopolycarboxylic acid, an aminopolyphosphonic acid and a salt thereof.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 11, wherein the amount of the bleaching agent is from 0.1 to 2 mols per liter of the bleaching solution.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pH of the bleaching solution is from 3.0 to 8.0.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bleaching solution further contains a compound which is selected from a compound represented by the following general formula (III-a) or (III-b): ##STR14## wherein M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom or an ammonium ion; R represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; --SO 3 M 1 or --COOM 1 ; R 1 represents --SO 3 M 1 or --COOM 1 ; M 1 represents represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom or an ammonium ion; and n represents an integer from 1 to 6 and when n is 2 or more, each R may be the same or different.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing time for the bleaching solution is not more 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing time for the bleaching solution is not more than 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing time for the bleaching solution is not more than 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing time for the bleaching solution is from 30 seconds to 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the color photographic light-sensitive material is a coupler-containing multilayer color negative light-sensitive material for photographing.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the color photographic light-sensitive material is a coupler-containing multilayer color reversal light-sensitive material for photographing.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the amount of the compound represented by general formula (I-a) employed in the silver halide emulsion layer is in a range of 2×10 -3 to 5×10 -1 mole per mole of silver.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing with a bleaching solution is conducted by a continuous bleaching process.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
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A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R 1 is an aryl group substituted with one or more substituents selected from a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group, an acyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfamido group, an oxycarbonyl group and a cyano group, R 2 is selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and R 3 is a hydrogen atom, wherein Z 1 is a halogen atom.
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