Method for producing color print having high quality and long life, applicable for long period conservation

The method for producing color prints on silver dye bleach (SDB) paper comprising,

• making three color separation black and white positives from a color positive film using blue, green and red color filters, and
• making a color print on SDB paper from the color separation positives using blue, green and red color filters,
• wherein the making of color separation black and white positive comprises the preliminary step of making color separation negatives with the first color filters,
• wherein the making of color negatives comprises the preliminary steps of making cyan, magenta and yellow density correction masks using density correction cyan, magenta and yellow filters.

A method for producing color print on a silver dye bleach paper from a color positive film having a reproducing density range which is greater than that of the silver dye bleach paper, comprising the steps of:

• making three color separation black and white negative from the color positive film by using blue, green and red color filters for yellow, magenta and cyan separations, respectively;
• making three color separation black and white positives from the negatives, respectively, each of the positives having an effective reproducible density range in which adequate tone balances of images can be ensured and which is substantially equal to the reproducible density range of the silver dye bleach paper;
• and
• making a composite color print on the silver dye bleach paper from the positives by using blue, green and red color filters, respectively,
• wherein the making of the negatives comprises masking of the negatives with color and tone correction masks for both the correction of density balances of color contents of images to be formed on the negatives and the correction of deviations of tone balances of images to be formed thereon.

A method for producing color prints on silver dye bleach (SDB) paper comprising the following steps:

• making plural density correction masks using density correction color filters;
• making plural color separation black and white negatives using plural color filters and the correction masks;
• making plural color separation black and white positives from the negatives;
• and
• making a color print on SDB paper from the color separation positives using the same plural color filters as in the second step.