Patent ID: 6130023
Filing Date: 2000-10-10
Classification: G03C,G03F

Abstract:
A sealed package of at least two sheets of an imaging element in a packaging material, said imaging element comprising in the order given (i) a hydrophilic base, (ii) an image receiving layer containing physical development nuclei, (iii) an intermediate layer comprising a non-proteinic hydrophilic film-forming polymer or hydrophobic polymer beads having an average diameter not lower than 0.2 Am and having been prepared by polymerization of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and (iv) a photosensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion being in water permeable relationship with said image receiving layer, characterized in that the surrounding of the imaging element in such a package has at 22.degree. C. a relative humidity between 20% and 50% and that said package contains between each sheet of the imaging element a paper spacer having a weight of more than 15 g/m.sup.2, containing less than 20 ppm by weight of formaldehyde and having a pH of less than 9.