Patent ID: 6060225
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: B41J,G03C,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for forming a color image that comprises subjecting to color-development a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one photographic constitutional layer on a support, with an alkaline processing solution substantially free from a color-developing agent, wherein 1 the said silver halide light-sensitive material contains, in at least one of the photographic constitutional layer, at least one dye-forming coupler and at least one compound or its precursor, that is oxidized by a silver halide, to form an oxidation product thereof, that is coupled with the said coupler, to form a dye having an absorption in a visible wavelength region; 2 a coating silver amount, in terms of the total amount of silver in all coating layers of the said light-sensitive material, is 0.003 to 0.3 g/m.sup.2, in terms of silver; 3 application of the said alkaline processing solution onto the said light-sensitive material is performed, by a method in which droplets of the processing solution are sprayed from a plurality of nozzle holes, so as to be coated thereon, and three droplets, which have been sprayed from these nozzle holes and then have attached onto the said light-sensitive material in contact with each other, are attached to the said light-sensitive material, so that they are adjacent to each other with no interval between them; and 4 subsequent to the coating of the said alkaline processing solution, a peroxide-containing solution is applied to the said light-sensitive material in the same manner as in the said alkaline processing solution.