Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide photographic material and an image forming method for obtaining a monochrome image using a dye image even if it is treated with a color developer free of benzyl alcohol; a photographic property of the monochrome image is less deteriorated by a toxic gas such as formaldehyde and an increase in sensitization and fog with time is improved.

Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide photographic material which can give a black-and-white picture by the use of dye images even when processed with a color developer substantially free from benzyl alcohol, and little suffers from the deterioration of photographic characteristics by harmful gas such as formaldehyde; and a process for forming images.Specifically, a silver halide photographic material comprising a base and at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on the base, wherein the silver chloride content of the grainy silver halide constituting the silver halide emulsion layer is 95 mole % or above; the silver halide emulsion layer contains a yellow coupler, a magenta coupler and a cyan coupler; and the silver halide emulsion layer and/or other hydrophilic colloid layer contains a specific compound; and a process for forming images which comprises processing this silver halide photographic material with a color developer substantially free from benzyl alcohol.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is provided which exhibits nearly equal sensitivities and gamma values with respect to yellow, magenta and cyan to form a black-and-white image of neutral black or sepia tone, even when it is processed with a color developer free from benzyl alcohol.The silver halide photographic material is made up of a substrate and at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on the substrate. The silver chloride content of silver halide grains constituting the silver halide emulsion layer is 95 mole % or above, the silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized by a specific sensitizing dye, and the silver halide emulsion layer contains a yellow coupler, a magenta coupler and a cyan coupler. The image-forming process is characterized by developing the silver halide photographic material with a color developer substantially free from benzyl alcohol.

Abstract: A photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive composition comprising a photosensitive and heat-developable element and a photopolymerizable element. An imagewise unexposed area on the material is polymerized by imagewise exposure, heating and whole areal exposure. The photosensitive and heat-developable element comprises at least a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt and a reducing agent of the formula ##STR1## The photopolymerizable element comprises at least a polymerizable polymer precursor and a photopolymerization initiator. An image forming method comprises the steps; subjecting a photosensitive material in the same layer to imagewise exposure and heating to form an image; and subjecting the resultant photosensitive material to whole areal exposure to polymerize and imagewise unexposed or exposed area thereof.

Abstract: An image forming method comprising;subjecting an image forming medium containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a polymerizable polymer precursor and a photopolymerization initiator, to imagewise exposure, followed by heating to produce a light-absorbing organic compound in said image forming medium; and subjecting said image forming medium in which said light-absorbing organic compound has been produced, to polymerization exposure to cause said polymerizable polymer precursor to polymerize; where the light-absorbing characteristics of said light-absorbing organic compound are utilized to suppress the polymerization of said polymerizable polymer precursor at the area at which said light-absorbing organic compound has been produced.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material of which thermal fogging is markedly suppressed without detriment to image characteristics such as sensitivity, which is prepared by forming a single layer or multiple layers of a heat-developable photosensitive element comprising at least (a) an oxidation-reduction image-forming component comprising a long-chain fatty acid silver salt and a reducing agent, (b) a photosensitive silver halide or/and a photosensitive slilver halide-forming component, (c) a binder, and (d) at least one member selected from the compounds represented by the following general formula:HOOC--R--COOHwherein R represents an alkylene or alkenylene group of at least 4 carbon atoms which may be linear or branched, on a support.

Abstract: A process for producing a heat-developable photosensitive material containing fine photosensitive silver halide particles having a uniform particle form and particle size, said silver halide being prepared by reacting a silver salt of an organic fatty acid stoichiometrically with an inorganic or organic halogen compound.

Abstract: A photodevelopable silver halide photosensitive material wherein a visible image is formed by a latent image-forming step in which high illumination exposure is effected for a short time and a subsequent light development step in which low illumination exposure is effected, which comprises at least one compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group and salts thereof.

Abstract: Exposed, strip-form printing paper is sequentially cut into separate sheets, the sheets are sorted so that alternate sheets are moved through separate parallel paths wherein they are inverted to place the exposed sides of the sheets upwardly and then they are directed into an automatic developing machine.