Patent ID: 6096488
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A method for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, at least one layer of which contains a monodisperse emulsion of silver bromochloroiodide, silver chloride or silver bromochloride grains containing about 30 mol % or less of silver bromide and having a ratio S/r of the standard deviation S of the grain diameter distribution to the average grain diameter r of 0.20 or below, the coating amount of silver of said photographic material is a sufficient amount up to 0.75 g/m.sup.2, comprising the steps of continuously processing with a color developer having a chloride ion content of 0.035 mol/l or more and containing a water-soluble high polymer compound in an addition amount of 0.001 to 10 g per liter of the color developer, followed by desilvering, and then one or both of washing and stabilizing, wherein said water-soluble high polymer compound is(1) a homopolymer of one repeating unit selected from the group consisting of(i) the following repeating units ##STR123## (ii) the repeating units represented by one of the following formulae (III), (IV), and (V): ##STR124## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group of 6 to 14 carbon atoms, or R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 may bond together to form a ring structure; ##STR125## wherein R.sup.1 has the same meaning as defined in formula (III) given above, R.sup.13 and R.sup.14 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or they may bond together to form a lactam ring, an oxazolidone ring, or a pyrrolidone ring, which ring structures may be substituted; and ##STR126## wherein R.sup.1 has the same meaning as defined in formula (III) given above, and Z represents a group of atoms required to form a 5- to 7-membered ring structure, which may be substituted, or(2) a copolymer consisting essentially of at least two repeating units selected from the group consisting of the repeating units set forth above in (i) and the repeating units set forth above in (ii).