Abstract: A process for producing a printing plate and a printing plate making machine are disclosed. The process involves providing an electrophotographic plate making material which includes a base having a low conductive layer thereon. The material is electrically charged and imagewise exposed. The imagewise exposed material is subjected to liquid toner development with a toner containing a solvent. The solvent is then substantially removed by heating the material to a temperature sufficient to cause the evaporation of the solvent. The material is then moved to a substantially isolated fixing area and again heated in order to fix a toner image on the plate making material. The process can be quickly and easily carried out and eliminates the danger of the explosion of solvent vapors.

Abstract: A presensitized lithographic printing plate, which comprises a support having a hydrophilic surface. A non-silver light-sensitive layer capable of having formed therein a lipophilic image pattern and a direct positive light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer are provided on the support in that sequence. The non-silver light-sensitive layer is provided with an adjacent hydrophilic colloid layer in which a resin is dispersed in fine particle form. The resin is a copolymer comprising (A) a recurring unit derived from at least one monomer of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, and (B) a recurring unit derived from at least one monomer of an aralkyl acrylate and an aralkyl methacrylate.

Abstract: A photosensitive material for lithographic printing comprising a photosensitive layer, an aluminum foil and a paper base in that order. An intermediate layer containing colloidal silica and/or colloidal alumina is formed between the photosensitive layer and the aluminum foil. The material has good stability and can produce a large number of high quality printed copies.

Abstract: The formation of spots when making a printing plate using a presensitized printing plate comprising a silver halide light-sensitive layer formed on an aluminum support having an aluminum oxide film on the surface directly or over a non-silver light-sensitive intermediate layer is effectively prevented by incorporating a mercapto compound in one of the layers.

Abstract: A photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor and a method for the preparation of a lithographic printing plate is described, said precursor comprising a support, a non-silver photosensitive layer and a photographic silver halide emulsion coating, and exhibiting photographic camera speed and a printing durability equivalent to the conventional type presensitized plate due to the underlying non-silver photosensitive layer; the silver halide emulsion coating contains a compound represented by the formual (I)R.sup.1 NHNHCOR.sup.2 (I)in which R.sup.1 represents an aryl group and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, an aryl group, or an aliphatic group.

Abstract: A photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor which has a camera speed together with all the advantageous features inherent to positive type, conventional PS plates is disclosed. On an aluminum support having a hydrophilic surface, one provides first a positive type non-silver photosensitive layer capable of forming an oleophilic image, and then superposes thereon an unfogged positive type internally sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion coating.

Abstract: A photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support having a hydrophilic surface and having thereon a non-silver photosensitive layer capable of forming a water-insoluble oleophilic image and a hardened gelatino silver halide photosensitive emulsion layer on the non-silver photosensitive layer.

Abstract: A process for producing a lithographic printing plate from a light-sensitive lithographic printing plate comprising a support, a non-silver light-sensitive layer which is provided on the support and which forms a water-insoluble lipophilic image and a gelatino-silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer on the non-silver light-sensitive layer, which process comprises the steps of:(a) imagewise exposing the light-sensitive lithographic printing plate;(b) developing the gelatino-silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer;(c) exposing the non-silver light-sensitive layer to light;(d) washing out the gelatino-silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer in the presence of a proteolytic enzyme; and(e) developing the non-silver light-sensitive layer.

Abstract: A multilayer color photographic material with improved color reproduction comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers which provide color images having different colors from each other, the multilayer color photographic material containing at least one interlayer color correction coupler as defined hereinafter.

Abstract: A process for preparing a photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor wherein a layer containing a water-insoluble lipophilic resin is disposed on a support having a hydrophilic surface, the coating of a silver halide emulsion is directly applied to said layer and dried, said coating of silver halide emulsion is dried with hot air at 60.degree. to 150.degree. C. without permitting the same to set.

Abstract: A photographic two-equivalent magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein [A] represents a magenta color image-forming coupler residue, and the ##STR2## moiety represents a group replacing a hydrogen atom of an active methylene group in coupler [A] wherein Z.sub.a Z.sub.b, Z.sub.c and Z.sub.d, which can be the same or different, each represents a methine group or an --N.dbd. group, and the nitrogen-containing ring formed by Z.sub.a to Z.sub.d may further be substituted with a fused ring, with the proviso that the ##STR3## moiety does not represent a benzotriazolyl-1, benzotriazolyl-2, benzimidazolyl-1 or indazolyl-1 group; a photographic light sensitive material containing the photographic coupler; and a method of forming images using the photographic coupler.

Abstract: A two-equivalent magenta coupler in which the coupling position is substituted with a sulfonamido group, and capable of forming a magenta color image on coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support and containing the two-equivalent magenta coupler.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material capable of providing a relief image after imagewise exposure, tanning development and washing off the non-exposed portions comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, in which the silver halide emulsion layer has thereon a synthetic resin layer which is substantially insoluble in water and permeable to water and has an oleophilic surface.

Abstract: In a process for preparing a planographic printing plate which comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon a tanning-developable silver halide photosensitive layer; tanning developing the exposed photosensitive material and washing out the untanned areas of the photosensitive layer; the improvement comprising the silver halide photosensitive layer further contains finely divided particles of an oleophilic synthetic resin in which the particles are substantially insoluble in water, are non-permeable to an alkaline solution and are not dissolved during the tanning development.

Abstract: A photographic two-equivalent magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein (A) represents a residue of a magenta color image-forming coupler in which one of the hydrogen atoms in the coupling position is eliminated; Q represents an oxygen atom or NH group; and B represents the non-metallic atoms necessary to form a 5-membered or a 6-membered ring containing the nitrogen atom and the ##STR2## group. Color photographic light-sensitive materials containing the two-equivalent magenta coupler are also described.

Abstract: A silver halide photo-sensitive material is provided having a hydrophilic colloid layer containing dispersed therein finely divided particles of a substantially water-immiscible mixture containing a hydrophobic photographic substance. The aforesaid mixture contains a polymer having recurring units represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## where, in the above formula, R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group, R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to 12 carbon atoms, X represents a bivalent substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon radical containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 50.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising an aluminum support having thereon an anodized aluminum oxide layer and a light sensitive silver halide layer containing a silver halide developing agent thereon with a subbing layer containing at least either a silver halide or a developing agent suitable for a silver halide in an amount less than the quantity contained in the light-sensitive layer, which can be used to produce a relief image possessing high printing durability by successively receiving an image-wise exposure, an alkaline solution development, a washing-off and a drying.

Abstract: Presensitized printing plates for lithographic printing which comprise an aluminum support having an anodically oxidized aluminum oxide film thereon and a light-sensitive layer containing internal latent image type silver halide grains which are not fogged on the anodically oxidized aluminum oxide film on the support.

Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material in which a silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer is provided on a support permanently provided with a spectral reflectance of about 25% or less in the light-sensitive wavelength region of the silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer. A method of utilizing the same in a diffusion transfer process is also disclosed.

Abstract: A color photographic material having on a support at least a photographic emulsion containing an excellent colored coupler represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2 represents a phenyl group having a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group at the ortho-position to the imino group bonded to the 3-position of the pyrazolone ring of the coupler; and R.sub.3 represents a phenyl group having a hydroxyl group at the para-position to the azo group of the coupler; the coupler having a hydrophobic diffusion-resisting group in the molecule thereof.