Patent ID: 6218092
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: G03C,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for processing a silver halide light sensitive photographic material comprising on a support a silver halide emulsion layer by the use of an automatic processor, the method comprising the steps of:developing an exposed photographic material with a developing solution,fixing the developed photographic material with a fixing solution, andwashing the photographic material,wherein a developing bath of the processor comprises a processing tank and a temperature-controlling tank and a ratio by volume of the temperature-controlling tank to the processing tank being 0.4 to 1.0; said developing solution containing a reducton represented by the following formula (1); and the photographic material being processed according to the following requirement [1]: ##STR30##wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each --OM, a mercapto group, an amino group, an acylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or an alkylthio group, in which M is a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal; Z is an atomic group necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered ring; andL.sup.0.75.times.T=50 to 150 requirement [1]wherein L is a transport length in the processor within a range of 0.5 to 0.8 m; and T is a total processing time of the processor.