Protective overcoat for photographic elements

A method of making a photographic print comprising:

• (a) providing a photographic element comprising a support, a silver-halide emulsion layer superposed on a side of said support, a processing-solution-permeable coating overlying the silver-halide emulsion layer, said overcoat having a laydown of at least 0.54 g/m2 (50 mg/ft2) made from a coating composition comprising 30 to 95%, by weight of solids, of water-dispersible polymer in the form of particles having an average particle size of less than 500 nm and a Tg between −40° C. and 80° C., and 4.5 to 69.5% by weight of solids, of water-soluble polymer such that more than 30 weight percent of the water-soluble polymer is washed out during photographic processing wherein the weight ratio of water-dispersible polymer to water-soluble polymer is between 50:50 to 90:10, further in combination with a compound that comprises at least one poly(oxyethylene)-poly(oxypropylene) block-copolymer chain, and;
• (b) imagewise exposing the photographic element to light;
• (c) developing the photographic element in a developer solution having a pH greater than 7 to obtain the photographic print;
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• (d) drying the photographic element to a temperature under 80° C. to render the overcoat water-resistant in the final product.