Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent represented by the formula (I). Also, an image forming method using the heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed.

Abstract: A dye fixing element to which a diffusible dye is transferable, the dye having been formed or released during development, either after or at the same time as imagewise exposure of a photosensitive element, which photosensitive element comprises a photosensitive silver halide, a binder and a dye providing compound which forms or releases a diffusible dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to the exposure, wherein the dye fixing element comprises at least one compound represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and X are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A process of forming images with a heat-developable color light-sensitive material is disclosed. The process of forming images comprises steps of exposing imagewise a heat-developable color light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon a light-sensitive layer containing a binder, light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and dye donating substance capable of forming or releasing a diffusible dye upon heat development and superposing a dye image receiving material which comprises a support having thereon a dye receiving layer, over the light-sensitive material during, or after completion of, heat development to transfer dye images to said dye image receiving layer; wherein the dye image receiving layer contains a hydrophilic binder and polymer particles; a weight ration of the hydrophilic binder to the polymer particles is from 1:05 to 1:20; and the heat development and transfer of dye images to the dye image receiving layer are carried out in the substantial absence of water.

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording material improved in adhesion of an image-receiving layer to a support comprises an image-receiving element comprising a support having a subbing layer and an image-receiving layer provided thereon in this sequence, said subbing layer containing a hardener.

Abstract: A diffusion transfer photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least a photosensitive element comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion and a diffusible dye donating compound, and a dye fixing element which is placed upon the said photosensitive element at the time of image transfer, wherein a natural macromolecular polysaccharide originating from red algae is included in said photosensitive element and/or in said dye fixing element, and a process of producing a diffusion transfer photographic material is disclosed, which comprises the step of using a coating liquid which contains a water soluble polymer solution comprising a natural macromolecular polysaccharide, a hydrophilic organic solvent in which the said water soluble polymer is essentially insoluble and water.

Abstract: A dye fixing element is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon a dye fixing layer which mordants a diffusible dye, wherein at least one of said dye fixing layer or a layer adjacent thereto contains two or more kinds of high molecular weight binders which exhibit phase separation each other so as to give a mat appearance.

Abstract: A photothermographic composite structure for use in a solvent-free dye thermal positive imaging diffusion-transfer process comprising:(a) an image-receiving element comprising a polymeric dyeable image-receiving layer having a glass transition temperature in the range of 20.degree. to 200.degree. C., and(b) strippably adhered to said image-receiving element, an imageable photothermographic element comprising in at least one layer thereof a binder, a silver source material, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic proximity to said silver source material, and a formazan dye.

Abstract: A diffusion transfer color photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least light-sensitive silver halides, binders and nondiffusible dye-providing compounds capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye, corresponding to or counter-corresponding to the progress of conversion of the siliver halide into silver through reductive reaction, which contains as a trapping agent at least one compound represented by the following formula (I) to prevent the generation and/or the transfer of dyes in the white area without causing the lowering of image density:--(A).sub.p --(B).sub.q-- (I)[wherein A represents at least one vinyl monomer unit containing a quaternary ammonium ion associated therewith a counter ion at least 50 mol % of which is constituted by an anion represented by the following formula (II):R--X.sup.- (II)(wherein X.sup.- represents SO.sub.3.sup.- and/or COO.sup.

Abstract: A method for forming an image comprising heating, in the presence of water and at least one of a base and a base precursor, a combination of (i) a light-sensitive element comprising a support provided thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing substance and (ii) a dye fixing element comprising a mordant capable of fixing a mobile dye formed in said light-sensitive element, wherein said dye fixing element further contains at least one of oil droplets and a latex comprising a polymer having a glass transition point of 40.degree. C. or less.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer photographic film unit is disclosed, which comprises:(1) a support having a light-shielding function in itself and/or having thereon a layer having a light-shielding function;(2) a light-sensitive element on the support, the element comprising in order from the support at least;(a) a color image-receiving layer comprising a mordant agent in a binder,(b) a peeling layer, and(c) at least one silver halide emulsion layer associated with a color image-forming substance;(3) a light-shielding agent-containing alkali processing composition; and(4) a cover sheet comprising at least a layer having a neutralizing function on a transparent support;wherein the cover sheet is characterized by having a dye-trapping layer comprising a mordant agent in a binder adjacent the alkali processing composition.

Abstract: A diffusion transfer photographic element wherein there is included at least one layer which contains a water based polymer dispersion obtained by adding at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer which contains a sulfinic acid group to a polymer dispersion which contains repeating units which have at least one quaternary ammonium salt and carrying out a polymerization.

Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprising a support having provided thereon a highly water-absorbing high molecular weight compound having degree of swelling of 5 or more.

Abstract: A negative-working photoresist composition comprising, in admixture, (a) dye-loaded or dye-precursor-loaded polymeric particles individually covered with a layer of gelatin that is covalently bonded thereto and (b) a radiation-sensitive dichromate is useful in the preparation of continuous tone dyed imaging elements such as color filter arrays for use in solid state color image sensing devices.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising a polymer mordant containing a repeating unit containing a tertiary amino group or a quaternary ammonium salt and at least one reprating unit represented by the formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group or substituted alkyl group; R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8, which may be the same or different, each represent hydrogen, an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; R.sup.11 represents an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a substituted alkoxy group, an acylamino group or a halogen atom; R.sup.12 and R.sup.13, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; L.sup.1 and L.sup.

Abstract: An image receiving material suitable for image production by dye diffusion transfer processing controlled by the development of (an) image-wise exposed silver halide emulsion layer(s), wherein said image receiving material comprises a supported image receiving layer free from gelatin and containing (1) a cationic polymeric mordant, and (2) colloidal silica applied from an aqueous acidic colloidal sol having a pH of not more than 4, and containing hydrated silica in combination with a smaller amount of colloidal alumina, the amount of said colloidal material to said mordant in the image-receiving layer being in a weight ratio range from 1/5 to 1/2, and silica (SiO.sub.2) being present at a coverage of at least 0.5 g per m2.

Abstract: A photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive layer and a polymerizable layer which are laminated. An area of the polymerizable layer, corresponding to an unexposed area of the photosensitive layer, is polymerized when the photosensitive material is exposed to light with a wavelength of 400 to 900 nm and heated to 60.degree. to 80.degree. C.

Abstract: An image-receiving element, adapted to the production of a diffusion transfer photograph adhesively bondable to a substrate material, comprises first and second separable sheet-like support members adhesively bonded to one another by a layer of adhesive therebetween, the adhesivity of the first sheet-like support to the adhesive layer being less than the adhesivity of the second sheet-like support to the adhesive and less than the cohesivity of the adhesive layer. The second sheet-like support member carries on the side thereof opposed from the adhesive layer at least a water-permeable and dyeable image-receiving layer which receives a photographic dye image by diffusion transfer processing.

Abstract: An image-receiving element for heat transfer type dye image, which comprises a support, a binder and a compound represented by the formula (I) shown below on the support: Formula (I)[M(X.sub.1).sub.l (X.sub.2).sub.m (X.sub.3).sub.n ].sup.P+ Qwherein, M represents a transition metal ion, X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 represent a coordination compound capable of forming a complex by coordinate bonding with the transition metal ion, Q is at least one of ##STR1## and (R.sub.5 --SO.sub.3.sup.-).sub.p, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cyano group, a heterocyclic residual group or hydrogen atom (these may be the same or different), R.sub.5 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, p represents 1, 2 or 3, m represents 1, 2 or 0, n represents 1 or 0, and p represents 1 or 2.

Abstract: Method for the production of a multicolor filter array wherein individual color pixels are delineated by a light absorbing contour pattern, which method comprises the steps of:(a) providing a photosensitive dye receptor material being a photographic silver halide emulsion material incorporating at least one waterpermeable silver halide emulsion layer on a support and containing optionally a mordanting agent suited for fixing dyes in said silver halide emulsion layer and/or in another layer in waterpermeable relationship therewith,(2) depositing pixelwise different dyes or dye precursors compounds wherefrom dyes can be formed by chemical reaction on said photosensitive dye receptor material,(3) photo-exposing said at least one silver halide emulsion layer of said dye receptor material to a light pattern resulting in a latent image in the form of a contour line pattern delineating the individual color pixels obtained in said dye receptor material, and(4) developing said latent image to form in said dye receptor

Abstract: Azlactone copolymers having at least two different reactive groups and useful as intermediates for the production of a variety of useful polymeric materials contain repeating units according to the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl (e.g., methyl); each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is hydrogen, alkyl (e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl); aryl (e.g., phenyl, naphthyl), alkaryl (e.g., tolyl), aralkyl (e.g., benzyl), cycloalkyl (e.g., cyclohexyl, adamantyl), or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded constitute a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; each of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 is hydrogen or alkyl (e.g., methyl, ethyl); Z is halogen, such as chlorine and each of a and b represents a mole proportion of each of the respective units.

Abstract: A color photosensitive material and a process for producing an image using such a material are disclosed. The color photosensitive material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide and a dye releasing compound represented by formula (A). ##STR1## wherein Ar and Ar', which may be the same or different, each represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group, Ar and Ar' may be joined together to form a ring, and R represents an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group or a sulfonyl group.

Abstract: A negative-working dyeable photoresist composition comprising in admixture(a) a poly(vinyl alcohol) binder,(b) a radiation-sensitive dichromate, and(c) a polymeric mordant comprising recurring units derived from a quaternized N-vinylimidazole is useful in the preparation of continuous tone dyed imaging elements.

Abstract: A solid state color image sensing device comprising a semiconductive support having a surface comprising an array of light sensing pixels and superimposed thereon in microregistration a color filter array having at least three sets of dyed filter elements is characterized in that at least one set of the filter elements is formed from a negative-working dyeable photoresist composition comprising, in admixture,(a) a poly(vinyl alcohol) binder,(b) a radiation-sensitive dichromate, and(c) a polymeric mordant comprising recurring units derived from a quaternized N-vinylimidazole.Color filter elements prepared from the dyeable photoresist composition have high resolution, excellent clarity and dye uptake, and low absorbance of blue light and thus are particularly useful in high quality high resolution solid state color imaging sensors having excellent thermal and light stability. A method of making the above-described device is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of a processing of a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The process comprises a step of developing the exposed color photographic material and a step of treating the developed color photographic material with a bleach-fixing solution. The bleach-fixing solution contains an organic acid ferric complex. At least one layer of the emulsion layers of the photographic material contains silver halide grains containing from 0.5 to 25 mol % of silver iodide. The total dry-thickness of the photographic component layers contained in the photographic material is from 8 to 25 .mu.m and the swelling rate T1/2 of the photographic component layers is not more than 25 sec. The method is suitable for rapid processing of the fine grain-type high-speed silver iodide-containing color photographic material. The method uses a bleach-fixing bath enabling the rapid processing of the high-speed color photographic material.

Abstract: An image-receiving material suitable for image production by dye diffusion transfer processing controlled by the development of (an) image-wise exposed silver halide emulsion layer(s), wherein said image-receiving material contains a hydrophobic resin support coated with a subbing layer that is coated with an image-receiving layer containing gelatin in combination with a cationic polymeric mordant containing glycidyl groups that can react with active hydrogen atoms of gelatin, the weight ratio of said polymeric mordant to gelatin being 25:1 to 1:1 and the gelatin being present at a coverage of at least 0.1 g per m2, and wherein said subbing layer has been applied from an aqueous composition comprising a polyester-polyurethane wherein isocyanate groups still present in its structure have reacted with an ionomeric compound containing at least one active hydrogen atom and a carboxylate or sulphonate salt group.

Abstract: An image-receiving element for use in photographic diffusion transfer film units of the "peel-apart" type is disclosed, comprising a support material; a polymeric acid-reacting layer; a water-permeable, water-absorbing polymeric layer for the gathering of processing moisture and image-degrading salt species; a thin, polymeric latex-deposited, water-impermeable and non-absorbing timing layer which is substantially impermeable to alkali for a predetermined period until the occurrence of a predetermined chemical reaction and conversion of said layer to a condition of permeability to alkali; and an alkali-permeable and dyeable image-receiving layer.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprising a light-sensitive layer containing silver halide, a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound provided on a paper support. The paper support has a low shrinkage ratio of not more than 0.15% both in the machine direction and in the cross direction. The shrinkage ratio is a value measured at the change of relative humidity from 75% to 60%.

Abstract: Phosphonium mordanting polymer, that is capable of fixing acid dyes and that comprises randomly distributed recurring units corresponding to the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein: A represents a unit that is derived from a copolymerizable monomer capable of quenching singlet oxygen e.g. N-vinylimidazole or 2-methyl-1-vinylimidazole;B represents a unit that is derived from a copolymerizable monomer having a hydrophobic character e.g. acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile;n represents an integer of from 1 to about 12;each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 (same or different) represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl group e.g. n-butyl, a substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl group e.g. a methylol group, a cyanoethyl group or an aralkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group e.g. phenyl, or a substituted aryl group;X.sup.- represents an acid anion e.g. a halogen anion e.g. Cl.sup.-, Br.sup.- or I.sup.-, or an anion derived from an inorganic acid e.g. NO.sub.3.sup.-, HSO.sub.4.sup.-, SO.sub.4.sup.--, H.sub.2 PO.sub.4.sup.

Abstract: In a heat-transfer image-receiving element adapted to have a superposed relation, at least during a heat-transfer processing, with a heat-transfer element containing a heat-transferable dye donator, wherein said heat-transfer image-receiving element comprises at least one of compounds having the following general Formula (I), (II) or (III) and at least one of compounds having the following general Formula (IV) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.1 ', R.sub.3, R.sub.3 ' and R.sub.5 each is a hydrogen atom, alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl, naphthyl, heterocyclic, acyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl or aralkylsulfonyl group; R.sub.2, R.sub.4, R.sub.4 ', R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 each is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a monovalent organic group, l is an integer of from 1 to 4, q is an integer of from 1 to 6, m, n and p each is an integer of from 1 to 3, provided if the l, m, n, p and q each is an integer of not less than 2, the R.sub.2, R.sub.4, R.sub.4 ', R.sub.6 and R.sub.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dye diffusion transfer imaging process comprising transferring image-wise by diffusion an acid dye to an image-receiving layer incorporating a non-polymeric phosphonium mordanting agent and a copolymer latex comprising free weak acid groups as a stabilizer for the mordanting agent, wherein the image-wise transfer of said acid dye is performed in the presence of a heterocyclic compound corresponding to one of the following general formulae I, II, and III: ##STR1## wherein: Y represents the non-metallic atoms needed to complete a saturated or unsaturated 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic nucleus, which may carry a fused-on aromatic ring system, and M represents hydrogen, an alkali metal atom, a quaternary ammonium group, or a negative charge forming an inner salt with a quaternized nitrogen atom of the heterocyclic compound. The invention also provides an image receptor element for dye diffusion transfer imaging processes comprising a support and such image-receiving layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image receptor element for dye diffusion transfer imaging processes, which comprises a support and an image-receiving layer incorporating a hydrophilic colloid and a mordanting polymer having quaternary ammonium groups and comprising polyalkylpiperidine units, which polymer is capable of fixing acid dyes transferred to said image-receiving layer by diffusion. The present invention also provides a monosheet light-sensitive color photographic element comprising as integrating constituents a light-sensitive element and such an image receptor element.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having good granularity, high sensitivity and excellent fixability, comprising a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains. The silver halide grains have an average iodine content of at least 3 mole %, and the photographic material further contains a polymer capable of providing a cation site in a fixing solution on the same side as the photosensitive layer.

Abstract: Copolymeric mordants coatable from water into copolymeric mordant layers for photographic products and processes are disclosed. The copolymeric mordants comprise polymerized repeating units from first and second polymerizable vinylbenzyl quaternary ammonium compounds (the first polymerizable compound, if homopolymerized, providing a water-soluble homopolymer and the second polymerizable compound being a micelle-forming compound which, if homopolymerized, forms a water-insoluble homopolymer). The copolymeric mordants are coatable to image-receiving layers for the mordanting of dyes in photographic products and processes.

Abstract: A process for forming an image comprising imagewise exposing a light-sensitive element comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing substance which produces or releases a mobile dye corresponding or counter-corresponding to a reaction where said light-sensitive silver halide is reduced to silver at an elevated temperature, and subsequently or simultaneously heating said light-sensitive element in the presence of at least one of a base and precursor thereof, and thereby transferring said mobile dye thus produced or released to a dye fixing element, wherein a coated layer of said dye fixing element has been hardened with an epoxy hardener.

Abstract: An image-forming method which comprises:imagewise exposing a light-sensitive material comprising a light-sensitive layer provided on a support wherein the light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent, a polymerizable compound and a color image forming substance;simultaneously or thereafter developing the light-sensitive material to polymerize the polymerizable compound within the area where the latent image of the silver halide has been formed, and thereby fixing the color image forming substance on the support within the area;pressing the light-sensitive material on an image-receiving material comprising an image-receiving layer provided on a support wherein the image-receiving layer contains a granulated thermoplastic compound, to transfer the unfixed color image forming substance to the image-receiving material; andheating the image-receiving material.

Abstract: A method for forming an image is described, comprising developing a photosensitive element which comprises a support provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing substance which forms or releases a diffusible dye by developing after or simultaneously with imagewise exposure thereof, transferring the thus-formed or released diffusible dye to a dye fixing layer of a dye fixing element, and thereafter separating said photosensitive element and said dye fixing element from each other, wherein at least one layer constituting said photosensitive element and said dye fixing element contains an oil component.

Abstract: Diffusion transfer films and processes are disclosed wherein the processing composition includes a light reflecting pigment and an optical filter agent, and the image-receiving layer carries an overcoat comprising a polyoxyalkylene decolorizing agent hydrogen bonded with at least one other polymer and a salt of polyvinyl hydrogen phthalate, the overcoat layer being adapted to decolorize optical filter agent immediately adjacent the interface between the processing composition and the overcoat layer.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising a layer having a polymeric mordant which comprises repeating units represented by formula (I) and repeating units represented by at least one of formulae (II), (III) and (IV) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom or a straight or branched alkyl group,L represents a divalent linking group, andp represents 0 or 1; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.5 represents a hydrogen atom or a straight or branched alkyl group,R.sub.6 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group,R.sub.7 represents a hydrogen atom, a straight or branched alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group,A represents a divalent linking group bound to the main polymer chain through a carbon atom, andn represents an integer of from 1 to 30; ##STR3## wherein R.sub.5 ' and R.sub.8 ' each represents a hydrogen atom or a straight or branched alkyl group,R.sub.6 ', R.sub.6 ", and R.sub.6 '" each represents a divalent hydrocarbon group,R.sub.7 ', R.sub.7 ", and R.sub.

Abstract: An image receiving material suitable for image production by dye diffusion transfer processing controlled by the development of (an) image-wise exposed silver halide emulsion layer(s), wherein the support of said material is a resin support coated with gelatin in admixture with a cationic polymeric mordant containing glycidyl groups that can react with active hydrogen atoms of the gelatin, wherein said support is made of a vinyl chloride polymer and said support is coated with an image receiving layer wherein the weight ratio of said polymeric mordant to gelatin is from 25:1 to 2.5:1, and the gelatin coverage is at least 0.1 g per m2. In a particular embodiment the image receiving layer is used in the production of a laminar article serving as identification document.

Abstract: A photographic element containing a polymer comprising a recurring unit of general formula (I) and at least one recurring unit selected from the group of units of general formulae (II), (III) and IV) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; L represents a divalent linking group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and m is 0 or 1; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1a represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.4 is an alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; and n is 0 or 1; ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1a is as defined in general formula (II); R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; and p and q each is equal to 0 or 1; and ##STR4## wherein R.sub.1a is as defined in general formula (II); and D is a divalent linking group necessary for the formation of a 5- to 7-membered ring with the nitrogen atom and carbonyl group.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising at least one layer containing a polymeric mordant represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a repeating unit derived from a copolymerizable monomer having at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups;B represents a repeating unit derived from a copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer other than the repeating unit of A and the repeating unit having the copolymerization ratio of z;R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group;R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or aralkyl group, or two or more of R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are bonded to form a cyclic structure together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, and the total number of carbon atoms of R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 is 12 or more;R.sup.5 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkoxy, or acylamino group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom;m is 0, 1 or 2, and n is an integer of from 1 to 12;X.sup..crclbar.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material is described, having on a support silver halide emulsion layers associated with a yellow dye-providing compound, a magenta dye-providing compound, and a cyan dye-providing compound, and having thereon the same support or having a different support an image-receiving layer, said image-receiving layer comprising (1) a first image-receiving layer containing at least one kind of a cyclic quaternary ammonium mordant (I) having a quaternary ammonium salt moiety of a saturated cyclic amine or pyridine as a recurring unit for preferentially mordanting a cyan dye released or formed from said cyan dye-providing compound as a result of development and (2) a second image-receiving layer containing at least one kind of a quaternary ammonium mordant (II) having a quaternary ammonium salt moiety of an acyclic amine as a recurring unit for selectively mardanting a magenta dye and a yellow dye released or formed from said magenta dye-providing compound and said yellow dye-providin

Abstract: A process for improving adhesion between photographic layers of a photographic element comprising a support having provided thereon at least(1) a first photographic layer comprising a high molecular weight compound having a functional group capable of reacting with an isocyanate group and(2) a second photographic layer comprising a high molecular weight compound having a functional group capable of reacting with an isocyanate group which compound is different from the high molecular weight compound of said first layer,which process comprises coating from 2 to 20 ml/m.sup.2 of a solution containing a polyisocyanate compound having at least two isocyanate groups on the first photographic layer, drying said solution, and then coating the second photographic layer.

Abstract: A silver salt diffusion transfer photographic element is disclosed, comprising a support, an image-receiving layer containing at least a silver-precipitating nucleus provided on the support, and a layer containing cellulose acetate having a degree of acetylation of 40 to 49% and a cationic polymer electrolyte sandwiched between the support and the image-receiving layer.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one blocked photographic reagent represented by formula (I) or (II); ##STR1## wherein, A represents a moiety of a photographic reagent or a moiety of a precursor of a photographic reagent bonded to the ring containing Z through a hetero atom; Y.sup.1, and Y.sup.2 and Y.sup.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, or Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.3 in formula (I) together form a ring; Z represents an atomic group necessary for forming a carbon ring or a heterocyclic ring; and n represents 1 or 2.The silver halide photographic material is stable under storage conditions.

Abstract: An image-receiving element adapted to the provision of a diffusion transfer photograph and having a preprinted security pattern between contiguous layers thereof is disclosed. The pattern comprises a patterning agent and a binder therefor preferentially adhesive to the contiguous layer closest in proximity to the image-receiving layer of such element. Diffusion transfer photographs prepared from the image-receiving element carrying the preprinted security pattern are useful in the production of an information-bearing document such as an ID card.

Abstract: A novel process for transferring a diffusible dye to a dye fixing material by the steps of (a) applying water to a dye fixing material at least having a mordant and a binder on a support, (b) attaching the dye fixing material to a diffusible dye-containing material, and (c) heating the attached materials to transfer the dye from the dye-containing material to the dye fixing material, wherein the binder contains a cross-linked hydrophilic polymer and a non-cross-linked hydrophilic polymer and the amount of water applied to the dye fixing material is not more than the amount required to maximally swell the layer coated on the dye fixing material.The dye fixing material of the present invention is capable of absorbing a sufficient amount of water in a short period of time, in the process of the present invention, to provide a dye-transferred image of high density in the dye fixing material after heating for a short time, which is substantially free from mottle or color bleeding.

Abstract: A novel color diffusion transfer photographic material comprising (A) a light-sensitive element comprising a first support having thereon at least a silver halide photographic emulsion layer and a dye providing compound, (B) an image receiving element comprising a second support having thereon at least an image receiving layer and (C) means for providing an alkaline treating solution between element (A) and (B), wherein(i) the swollen film thickness of said light-sensitive element (A) is from about 10 .mu.m after being contacted with water at 25.degree. C. for 5 minutes;(ii) the swollen film thickness of said image receiving element (B) is from about 10 .mu.m to 40 .mu.m after being contacted with 0.1N KOH aqueous solution at 25.degree.C for 3 minutes; and(iii) said means for providing an alkaline treating solution provides an average thickness of said treating solution between element (A) and (B) during development of from about 40 .mu.m to 80 .mu.m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image recording process which comprises a step of (i) imagewise exposing a layer containing at least silver halide of an image recording material comprising (a) silver halide, (b) a reducing agent capable of developing silver halide, (c) a photopolymerization sensitizing dye capable of being reduced into a leuco substance by said reducing agent, and (d) a polymerizable vinyl monomer, to light to form a latent image, a step of (ii) uniformly heating said recording material to form a photopolymerization sensitizing dye image in a part corresponding to said latent image, and thereafter a step of (iii) uniformly exposing a layer containing at least said formed photopolymerization sensitizing dye image and said polymerizable vinyl monomer to light to form a polymer image in the part where said photopolymerization sensitizing dye image is present, by photopolymerization.

Abstract: A dye fixing material for fixing a mobile hydrophilic dye formed imagewise to a dye fixing layer is disclosed. The mobile hydrophilic dye image is formed by heating a heat-developable silver halide light-sensitive material in a substantially anhydrous condition after or during imagewise exposure. At least one layer of the dye fixing material contains a polymer having monomeric units of the following formula ##STR1## wherein A represents a vinyl monomer unit having no imidazole or imidazolium group, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkyl group substituted by a group capable of forming a coordinate bond with a metal, or a salt thereof, R.sub.2 and R.sub.5 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, aralkyl, or aryl group, R.sub.4 represents an alkyl or aralkyl group, X.sup..crclbar. represents an acid radical, x is from 0 to 80 mole %, y is from 10 to 100 mole %, z is from 0 to 50 mole %.