Photographic silver halide element having polyethylene naphthalate support and thin non-imaging bottom layers
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJohn Brian Rieger, Drake Matthew Michno
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Abstract
A photographic element comprises an ultraviolet ray absorbing polyester support bearing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer, the support having adjacent thereto one or more contiguous non imaging layers between the support and the closest silver halide photographic emulsion layer said one or more contiguous layers containing a combined gelatin laydown of 2.3 g/m.sup.2 or less.
Claims17
A multicolor photographic element comprising an ultraviolet ray absorbing polyester support comprising a polymer derived from a fused polycyclic aromatic dicarboxylate monomer which may be a homopolymer, a copolymer or a graft polymer, bearing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer, the support having adjacent thereto one or more contiguous non imaging layers between the support and the closest silver halide photographic emulsion layer, said one or more contiguous layers containing a combined gelatin laydown of 2.3g/m.sup.2 or less, containing an antihalation agent, the contiguous nonimaging layers being substantially free of ultraviolet absorbing compounds and having a gel to solvent weight ratio of at least 2.9.
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