Image forming method

An image forming method comprising steps of:

• exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a yellow image-forming layer, a magenta image-forming layer and a cyan image-forming layer each containing light-sensitive silver halide by a scanning exposure, of which a pixel size is r, with a light beam in a scanning time of not more than 10−3 seconds per pixel;
• and
• developing the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material,
• wherein when an image data of a black line having a width of r is reproduced onto the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material by the exposing step, (hwb−r) of each of the yellow image-forming layer, the magenta image-forming layer and the cyan image-forming layer is within the range of from 0 to 50, in which hwb represents a half band width value in μm of a line reproduced on the exposed and developed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material based on the image data of the black line, and
• wherein when an image data of a white line having a width of r is reproduced onto the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material by the exposing step, (hww-r) of each of the yellow image-forming layer, the magenta image-forming layer and the cyan image-forming layer is within the range of from 15 to 65, in which hww is a half band width value in μm of a line reproduced on the exposed and developed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material based on the image data of the white line.