Method of color photographic processing for color photographic papers
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsPaul A. Schwartz, Valerie L. Kuykendall, Eric R. Schmittou, Leif P. Olson, Susan M. Flavin
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Abstract
A method of processing photographic color papers is carried out using a photographic bleach-fixing composition in a bleach-fixing step that is carried out for less than 60 seconds. The bleach-fixing composition comprises certain aliphatic or aromatic sulfur-containing compounds that include a —N═C(SH)— group. The bleach-fixing composition can be prepared from a two-part bleach-fixing kit having two solutions that can be added directly to a processing chamber or premixed to form a replenisher solution.
Claims14
A photographic processing kit comprising:
- a) Solution A comprising at least 0.5 mol/l of a photographic fixing agent, and
- b) Solution B comprising at least 0.1 mol/l of a ferric-ligand photographic bleaching agent, and
- either or both of Solutions A and B comprising at least 0.05 mmol/l of a sulfur-containing compound represented by one or more of the following Structures I, II, III, IVb, and V:
- wherein Q1 represents a group of atoms that are necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, and R1 represents hydrogen, or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclic, or amino group,
- wherein Q2 represents a group of atoms that are necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, and R2 represents hydrogen, an alkali metal atom, a
- group wherein Q3 is defined the same as Q2, or an alkyl group,
- wherein R3 and R4 are independently alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, or heterocyclic groups, or R4 can be hydrogen, and Y is —O—, —S—, or —N(R5)— wherein R5 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heterocyclic, amino, acylamino, sulfonamido, ureido, or sulfamoylamino group, or R3 and R4, or R4 and R5, taken together, independently, any form a heterocyclic ring,
- wherein R6, R7, and R8 independently represent hydrogen, alkali metal ions, or alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, heterocyclic, amino, acylamino, ureido, or sulfamoylamino groups, and
- wherein R9, R10, R11 and R12 independently represent hydrogen, alkali metal ions, or alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, heterocyclic, amino, acylamino, ureido, or sulfamoylamino groups, and R13 represents an alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, heterocyclic, amino, acylamino, ureido, or sulfamoylamino group.
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