Patent ID: 7611829
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
1. A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and photographic constituent layers including at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow-dye-forming coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta-dye-forming coupler, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan-dye-forming coupler, and at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, which comprises the steps of: performing image-wise exposure of the light-sensitive material cut into sheets; and subjecting the exposed light-sensitive material sheets to photographic processing including a color development process, a bleach-fix process, a rinsing process and a drying process, while conveying the exposed light-sensitive material sheets by means of pairs of conveying rollers; wherein the sheet conveying speed in the photographic processing being 40.0 mm/sec to 100 mm/sec; wherein the rinsing process uses a tank structurally partitioned into a plurality of rooms with blade-form members for passing the photographic material cut into sheets through rinse solutions in a horizontal direction; and wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to be exposed contains any one component selected from the group consisting of: 1) at least one dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (IA), 2) at least one compound represented by the following formula (I), and 3) 1.4 mg/m wherein, in formula (IA), R′ and R″ each independently represent a substituent, and Z represents a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split-off in a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color-developing agent; wherein, in formula (I), A represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and M represents a cation; and wherein, in formula (II), M represents a cation; and R represents an atom having an atomic weight of 100 or lower, or a group having a total molecular weight of 100 or lower.