Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and color image-forming method

A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and photographic constituent layers including at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow-dye-forming coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta-dye-forming coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan-dye-forming coupler, comprising the steps of:

• subjecting the light-sensitive material to a scanning exposure at a sub-scan conveying speed of 90 mm/sec or more;
• and
• conducting a color-forming photographic processing;
• wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers to be exposed contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %;
• and wherein any one of the following conditions a) to e) is satisfied:
• a) the silver halide emulsion further has a silver bromide content of 0.1 to 4 mol %, and a silver bromide-containing phase is formed in layer form, or said emulsion has a region ranging in silver bromide content from 0.5 to 2Q mol % at a depth of 20 nm or less below the emulsion grain surface;
• b) the silver halide emulsion further has a silver iodide content of 0.02 to 1 mol %, and a silver iodide-containing phase is formed in layer form, or said emulsion has a region ranging in silver iodide content from 0.3 to 10 mol % at a depth of 20 nm or less below the emulsion grain surface;
• c) the silver halide emulsion further has a hexacoordinate complex containing iridium as a central metal and having at least two different kinds of coordinate ligands;
• d) the silver halide emulsion is further spectrally sensitized with at least one dye represented by the following formula (SI);
• wherein, in formula (SI), X1 and X2 each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a tellurium atom, a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom;
• Y1 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a furan, pyrrole, thiophene ring or benzene ring which may be condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group;
• Y2 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a benzene ring or a 5- or 6-membered unsaturated heterocycle, which may be further condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group;
• a bond between two carbon atoms by which Y1 and Y2 are each condensed with the carbon ring or the heterocycle may be a single bond or a double bond;
• one of R1 and R2 is an alkyl group substituted by an acid group other than a sulfo group, and the other is an alkyl group substituted by a sulfo group;
• L1 represents a methine group;
• M1 represents a counter ion;
• and m1 represents a number of 0 or more necessary for neutralizing a charge in a molecule;
• and
• e) the silver halide emulsion further has at least one inorganic sulfur or at least one compound represented by following formula (Z);
• R41—S—S—R42 Formula (Z)
• wherein, in formula (Z), R41 and R42 each represent an aliphatic group or an aromatic group independently, or combine with each other to form a ring.

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising a support and photographic constituent layers including at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow-dye-forming coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta-dye-forming coupler, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan-dye-forming coupler and at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer;

• which forms a color image by image-wise exposure and by photographic processing including a color development process finished within 18 seconds, a bleach-fix process, a rinsing process and a drying process while it is conveyed in cut sheet form at a speed of 40.0 mm/sec to 100 mm/sec by means of conveying rollers;
• and
• which contains any one component selected from the group consisting of:
• 1) at least one dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (IA),
• 2) at least one compound represented by the following formula (I), and
• 3) 1.4 mg/m2 or more of at least one compound represented by the following formula (II);
• wherein, in formula (IA), R′ and R″ each independently represent a substituent, and Z represents a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split-off in a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color-developing agent;
• wherein, in formula (I), A represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and M represents a cation;
• and
• wherein, in formula (II), M represents a cation;
• and R represents an atom having an atomic weight of 100 or lower, or a group having a total molecular weight of 100 or lower.

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising a support and photographic constituent layers including at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow-dye-forming coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta-dye-forming coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan-dye-forming coupler;

• wherein the light-sensitive, material is subjected to a scanning exposure at a sub-scan conveying speed of 90 mm/sec or more, and then a color-forming photographic processing, to form a color image;
• wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers to be exposed contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %;
• and wherein any one of the following conditions a) to e) is satisfied:
• a) the silver halide emulsion further has a silver bromide content of 0.1 to 4 mol %, and a silver bromide-containing phase is formed in layer form, or said emulsion has a region ranging in silver bromide content from 0.5 to 20 mol % at a depth of 20 nm or less below the emulsion grain surface;
• b) the silver halide emulsion further has a silver iodide content of 0.02 to 1 mol %, and a silver iodide-containing phase is formed in layer form, or said emulsion has a region ranging in silver iodide content from 0.3 to 10 mol % at a depth of 20 nm or less below the emulsion grain surface;
• c) the silver halide emulsion further has a hexacoordinate complex containing iridium as a central metal and having at least two different kinds of coordinate ligands;
• d) the silver halide emulsion is further spectrally sensitized with at least one dye represented by the following formula (SI);
• wherein, in formula (SI), X1 and X2 each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a tellurium atom, a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom;
• Y1 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a furan, pyrrole, thiophene ring or benzene ring which may be condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group;
• Y2 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a benzene ring or a 5- or 6-membered unsaturated heterocycle, which may be further condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or-heterocycle or may have a substituent group;
• a bond between two carbon atoms by which Y1 and Y2 are each condensed with the carbon ring or the heterocycle may be a single bond or a double bond;
• one of R1 and R2 is an alkyl group substituted by an acid group other than a sulfo group, and the other is an alkyl group substituted by a sulfo group;
• L1 represents a methine group;
• M1 represents a counter ion;
• and m1 represents a number of 0 or more necessary for neutralizing a charge in a molecule;
• and
• e) the silver halide emulsion further has at least one inorganic sulfur or at least one compound represented by following formula (Z);
• R41—S—S—R42 Formula (Z)
• wherein, in formula (Z), R41 and R42 each represent an aliphatic group or an aromatic group independently, or combine with each other to form a ring.