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US 6,436,624 B2Granted
Method for reducing the dye stain in photographic elements
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsSamir Y. Farid, Ramanuj Goswami, Mary E. Craver, John M. Mangus
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Abstract
A method for reducing dye stain of an exposed photographic element, said element comprising a support having thereon at least one image-forming layer containing a photobleachable dye, the method comprising processing the element, and exposing the processed element, in presence of a N-oxyazinium, to radiation that can be absorbed either by the photobleachable dye or by the N-oxyazinium.
Claims4
A photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one image forming silver halide layer containing a photobleachable sensitizing dye, and comprising a N-oxyazinium compound.
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