Abstract: There is disclosed a substrate treating method comprising supplying a treating solution onto a substrate, and continuously discharging a first cleaning solution to the substrate from a first discharge region disposed in a nozzle, while moving the nozzle and substrate with respect to each other in one direction, wherein a length of a direction crossing at right angles to the direction of the first discharge region is equal to or more than a maximum diameter or longest side of the substrate, the nozzle continuously spouts a first gas to the substrate from a first jet region, and the length of a direction crossing at right angles to the direction of the first jet region is equal to or more than the maximum diameter or longest side of the substrate.

Abstract: A method of developing a latent image on a photographic element (such as imagewise exposed photographic film) by absorbing a dye precursor into the film, applying a developer solution to the film to develop the latent image and form a dye in the film, scanning the film with light, and detecting at least one of light reflected away from and light transmitted through the film.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of photographic processing, comprising the steps of applying a first component of a processing solution to the surface of a silver halide photographic material to be processed and applying a second component of the processing solution to the surface of photographic material to be processed. When the applied first and second components have mixed together, the processing solution is active to oxidise silver in the photographic material. The invention also provides a photographic processor suitable for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A processor has a rotatable drum housed within an enclosure chamber. Processing solution is applied to the surface of the rotating drum and forms a film of solution around the periphery. The media to be processed is fed around the periphery of the rotating drum with its sensitised surface facing the drum.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for developing a portion of a photosensitive media having an exposed undeveloped image thereon. The apparatus includes a transport mechanism for moving the photosensitive media along a processing path; a reservoir containing a processing solution; a mechanism positioned along the processing path for applying a coating of the processing solution on the portion of the photosensitive media that has been exposed; a scanner for scanning the photosensitive media after development of the photosensitive media so as to obtain a digital record of the images. A cleaning mechanism is provided for cleaning the photosensitive media and/or a donor web used to apply a processing solution to the photosensitive media. The cleaning mechanism may include a replaceable cleaning cartridge.

Abstract: Water is first applied to a film by an applying device. Next, the film to which water is applied is heated and conveyed by a single heating drum. Plural chemical reactions are conducted in such a manner that a development processing sheet and a fixing processing sheet are sequentially superposed on the film in accordance with chemical reaction processes, and thereafter, are peeled from the film. As described above, due to the plural chemical reactions being conducted during a period of time in which the film is heated and conveyed by the single heating drum, non-uniform processing of the film when the film is transferred from one processing to another one does not occur.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection tank disposed above a conveying path and storing an image-forming solvent, a nozzle plate provided at the ejection tank as a bottom wall of the ejection tank and having a plurality of nozzle holes for ejecting the image-forming solvent, and at least one actuator for moving the nozzle plate reciprocally toward and away from an image-recording material on the conveying path. As the image-forming solvent is ejected from the nozzle holes, bubbles may enter into the ejection tank by way of the nozzle holes. However, the bubbles rise in the ejection tank without remaining in vicinities of the nozzle holes. As a result, a case in which bubbles close the nozzle holes and prevent the image-forming solvent from being released from the nozzle holes is avoided. Consequently, the image-forming solvent can be uniformly applied onto the image-recording material.

Abstract: An improved developer application method and apparatus for use in electronic film development, wherein the developer is applied to a photographic film using controlled, aerial deposition of one or more stream(s) of droplets of one or more developer agents or developer components such that the droplets adhere to a targeted region of the film, rather than run off, and chemically react to allow scanning of a latent image in the film as it moves through an electronic film development scan mechanism.

Abstract: An image forming process comprising the steps of: imagewise-exposing a heat developable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder and a dye-donating compound, wherein the dye-donating compound forms or releases a diffusive dye corresponding or reversely corresponding to a reduction reaction of the silver halide into silver; supplying water to the exposed material; heat developing the water-supplied material to form a diffusive dye image therein; and transferring the diffusive dye image onto a dye-fixing element, wherein the water-supplying step comprises jetting of a water droplet having a volume of not more than 0.01 mm.sup.3, and the light-sensitive material has a contact angle of not more than 50 degrees as determined at 0.5 second after the impact of the water droplet onto the light-sensitive material.

Abstract: A color filter is produced through the steps of: forming a layer of a color filter material including a colorant dispersed in a photosensitive resin on a substrate; and pre-baking, exposing and developing the color filter material layer to leave a color filter pattern on the substrate. In the developing step, a developer liquid is applied in the form of a curtain onto the exposed color filter material layer on the substrate, the substrate is allowed to stand in a substantially still state and then the substrate is supplied with an ultrasonic wave projected perpendicularly to the substrate while being in contact with the developer liquid. The ultrasonic wave is preferably uniformized by at least two rotating reflection or diffusion plates before it is projected onto the substrate. As a result, the color filter pattern can be developed with little development irregularity even on a large-size substrate.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a color developing process is disclosed. The color developing process comprisesthe first step of supplying one of a first color developing partial solution containing a color developing agent as a principal component and a second color developing partial solution containing an alkaline agent as a principal component, substantially only to an image-forming surface of the light-sensitive material,the second step of supplying one of the first partial solution and the second partial solution other than that supplied at the first step or a color developing solution containing a color developing agent and an alkaline agent, to the image-forming surface of the light-sensitive material at the same time or just after the first step.