Abstract: A latex is prepared by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer having an active methylene group in the presence of a hydrophilic polymer. The hydrophilic polymer comprises an isoprene sulfonic acid or salts thereof as a monomer unit. A sheet material is prepared having a support with a hydrophilic layer containing the latex thereon.

Abstract: A strobe device, including: a reflector, having a reflection surface which reflects a strobe light forwardly; a light emitting tube, having electrodes on its ends and provided inside the reflector, for emitting the strobe light; and a transmission window portion provided in a front of the light emitting tube and through which the strobe light is transmitted; in which the reflector has openings, to mount the light emitting tube from the front of the reflector, on both side portions of the reflector; and the light emitting tube is provided inside the reflector so that the electrode portions of the light emitting tube are positioned outside the openings of the reflector.

Abstract: A thermal transfer image recording method is disclosed.

Abstract: A thermally developable photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt and optionally provided on the side of the image forming layer, a component layer, at least one of the image forming layer and the component containing photosensitive silver halide grains and the photosensitive material exhibiting a silver potential of not more than 200 mV.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains and a dispersing medium, wherein the silver halide grains, each comprises a first high-iodide phase and a second high-iodide phase, each of the first and second high-iodide phases accounting for 0.5 to 5% of the grain, based on silver, and each of the first and second high-iodide phases having an iodide content of more than 40 mol %. A silver halide photographic material containing the emulsion is also disclosed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, having a sheet ejection section, provided in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus, for ejecting a recording sheet onto an upper surface portion of the image forming apparatus; a sheet post-processing apparatus for receiving the recording sheet, ejected from the sheet ejection section, so as to perform a post-processing operation upon the recording sheet; and a coupler for coupling the sheet post-processing apparatus with the image forming apparatus so that at least a part of the post-processing apparatus is located on the upper surface portion of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit including a main body; a photographic film, pre-loaded in the main body; an electronic flash unit; a shutter unit; a camera lens; and a diaphragm. In the lens-fitted film unit, a guide number of the electronic flash unit, a T-number determined from the camera lens and the diaphragm and a shutter speed of the shutter unit are determined so that A is not more than 8.5 when A represents an EV value of a reference exposure amount of the lens-fitted film unit under a stroboscopic photographing state minus 1.5; and intensity of a latent image, formed on the photographic film under the condition that a reference reflection panel being placed at a predetermined distance between 2-3 m from the lens-fitted film unit is illuminated by the electronic flash unit without other lights in the stroboscopic photographing state, corresponds to intensity of a latent image obtained under a photographing condition of photographing luminance not more than A+5.0 in EV value.

Abstract: A sucker adjustment device including a moving lever having a cam surface adjacent its far end. An axis is located adjacent the near end and a first cam follower is mounted intermediate the ends. The first cam follower bears against an actuating cam which causes the former to move between an extended position, wherein the sucker cup attached thereto contacts the bottom newspaper of a stack, and a retracted position, wherein the sucker cup is out of the path of the lowest newspaper. There is an actuating lever pivotally mounted about the axis and carrying an arm between its distal end and the axis. There is a second cam follower on the arm at a point remote from the actuating lever and bearing against the cam surface. A pivot adjacent the rotating end of the sucker bar spaced apart from the sucker cup permits the sucker bar to move between its extended and retracted positions.

Abstract: An iodide ion releasing compound represented by the following Formula [1], wherein R1, R2 and R3 represent a hydrogen atom and substituents; EWG represents —CO2—, —OCO—, —SO2—, —SO2O—, —OSO2—, —CONR4—, —NR5CO—, —CSNR6—, —NR7CS—, —NR8—, —O—, —S—, —CO—, —COCO— and —NR9SO2—; L represents linking group and SOL represents aqueous soluble group; R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 represent a hydrogen atom and substituents; n and m represent an integer of 1-4.

Abstract: In a photographic processing system for processing a photographic film for each order without splicing it to other photographic film, a destination of each of plural photographic films having a different destination from each other is determined based on photographic film destination determining information recorded on a photographic film to be processed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has therein an input device for inputting plural jobs relating to image forming, a specifying device which specifies degree of urgency relating to at least a part of the inputted job, a priority order determining device which determines the priority order of the inputted job based on the specified degree of urgency, and an execution device which executes the inputted job, based on the determined priority order.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first reading device for reading an image recorded on a recording medium; a storing device for storing a signal of a reference image representing a reference to correct the image recorded on the recording medium; a second reading device for reading a chart image obtained by recording the reference image; a calculating device for calculating image correction data by comparing the signal of the reference image with a signal of the chart image; an image processing device for correcting the image signal read by the first reading device on the basis of the image correction data; and an outputting device for outputting an image on the basis of the image signal corrected by the image processing device.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus for picking up, aligning, and feeding single sheets from a stack of a plurality of such sheets. The apparatus includes a driving means for the pick up, separator, and sheet feeder having a driving motor with a coupling in the drive path which is capable of providing a delay period between forward and backward rotations of the motor. There is a torque regulator between the coupling and a reverse roller which interrupts the driving force for a predetermined time. The apparatus also includes a control which stops the registration rollers while the single sheet collides with the circumferential surfaces thereof for alignment and, upon reversal of the driving motor, the sheet is fed while the reverse roller first stops for the predetermined time and then rotates in a direction opposite to the direction of feeding. Thus, the single sheets are aligned and double feeding is prevented.

Abstract: A thermally developable photosensitive material is disclosed. The thermally developable photosensitive material comprises at least one of dye represented by Formula I-a through I-d and at least one of compound represented by Formula 2. The chemical formula is described in the specification.

Abstract: In an image forming method in that an image-receiving layer of an image-receiving element is in contact with an ink sheet comprising a thermally transferable dye, and the dye is transferred to the image-receiving layer in accordance with imagewise-heating by a thermal head, the image-receiving layer having dye image formed by dye transfer is subjected to re-heating through a thin film material by thermal head.

Abstract: A thermally developable material is disclosed. The material comprises a support both surfaces which are covered with a resin thermal shrinkage ratio of not more than 0.02% at 150° C. for 30 minutes, and an image forming layer comprising an organic silver. The thermally developable material is advantageous in transparent without staining and size repetition accuracy.

Abstract: A two-sided image forming apparatus includes: an image carrying member; a toner image forming device for forming a toner image on the image carrying member; a belt-shaped intermediate transfer body for conveying a transfer material, having a volume resistivity R (&OHgr;·cm) wherein the following expression is satisfied, 109≦R<1012; a primary transferring device for transferring the toner image on the image carrying member onto the intermediate transfer body or a front face of the transfer material; and a secondary transferring device for transferring the toner image on the intermediate transfer body onto a rear face of the transfer material. The following expressions are satisfied, 0.2≦I(1B)/V≦0.7 and 0.6×I(1B)≦I(2)≦1.

Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming method in which, after transferring a toner image on an electrophotographic photoreceptor onto a recording material, the residual toner on said photoreceptor is removed employing an elastic body rubber blade is disclosed.

Abstract: A multilayer coating method is disclosed. The viscosity of an uppermost layer coating composition is adjusted to at least 0.1 Pa.s during coating, while the viscosity of the other layer coating composition is adjusted to at least 0.03 Pa.s, and a plurality of organic solvent-based coating compositions are coated onto a support employing wet on wet.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by the following Formula I; Formula I wherein R, is an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, R2 is an anti-diffusion aliphatic group or aromatic group, R3 is a hydrogen atom or halogen atom, Z3 is >N—R2, in which R2, is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, or —O—, Z4 is >N—R22 in which R22 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, or >C(R23) (R24) in which R23 and R24 are each a hydrogen atom or a substituent.