US 5,296,339 AGranted

Method for processing silver halide color photographic material

AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

InventorsYoshihiro Fujita, Keiji Mihayashi

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Abstract

A method for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising color developing the silver halide color photographic material with a color developer and then processing the photographic material with a processing solution having bleaching activity, in which the photographic material contains a coupler represented by the following general formula (I) and the replenishment rate of the color developer is not more than 600 ml/m.sup.2 of photographic material: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary for forming a 5-membered unsaturated heterocyclic ring together with a ##STR2## R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic oxy group or ##STR3## wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently represent hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, alkynyl groups, aromatic groups or heterocyclic groups; and X represents a group which is eliminable by reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, thereby obtaining a photographic material excellent in color development property, color image fastness, image quality and processing stability.

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Dependent claims

A method for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising:

(1) color developing the silver halide color photographic material with a color developer;
(2) and then processing the photographic material with a processing solution having bleaching activity, in which said photographic material contains a coupler represented by the following general formula (I) and a replenishment rate of said color developer is not more than 600 ml/m.sup.2 of photographic material:
##STR40## wherein R.sup.1 represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary for forming a 5-membered unsaturated heterocyclic ring together with a ##STR41## R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group;
R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic oxy group or ##STR42## wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group;
and X represents a group which is eliminable by reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent,
and wherein any of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, or X in formula (I) has at least one dissociation group represented by the following formula:
--Z.sup.1 --NH--Z.sup.2 --
wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2, which may be the same or different, represent SO.sub.2 or CO.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.