Processing apparatus for color photographic material

A processing apparatus for color photographic papers which comprises (a) processing tanks comprising a color developing tank, a desilvering tank, a washing tank and/or a stabilizing tank, (b) means for replenishing respective processing tanks, (c) means for controlling an amount of replenishing color developing solution to be charged into the color developing tank in such that an amount of overflow liquid from the color developing tank is at most 20 ml per m.sup.2 of the processed color photographic papers, (d) one storage tank for collecting overflow liquids from all of the processing tanks and (e) means for introducing all overflow liquids from the processing tanks into the storage tank.

A processing apparatus for color photographic photosensitive materials which comprises (a) two series of processing tanks comprising a color developing tank, a desilvering tank, a washing tank and/or a stabilizing tank, the one being first series for processing color photographic negative films and the other being second series for processing color photographic papers, (b) means for replenishing respective processing tanks, (c-1) means for controlling an amount of replenishing color developing solution to be charged into the color developing tank of the first series such that an amount of overflow liquid from the color developing tank is at most 400 ml per m.sup.2 of the processed color photographic negative films, (c-2) means for controlling an amount of replenishing color developing solution to be charged into the color developing tank of the second series such that an amount of overflow liquid from the color developing tank is at most 20 ml per m.sup.2 of the processed color photographic papers, (d) one storage tank for collecting overflow liquids from all of the processing tanks, (e) means for introducing all overflow liquids from the processing tanks into the storage tank, and (f-1) means for measuring an amount of processed color photographic negative films and (f-2) means for measuring an amount of processed color photographic papers.