Abstract: A recording process, wherein an organic reducing compound being present in a supported or self-supporting layer and corresponding to one of the following general formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, an aliphatic group or a cycloaliphatic group, andR.sub.2 represents an aliphatic oxy group, a cycloaliphatic oxy group, an aryloxy group, an amino group of the formula ##STR2## in which R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 (same or different) represent hydrogen, an aliphatic, a cycloaliphatic or an aromatic group or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent together the necessary atoms to close a heterocyclic nitrogen containing nucleus; ##STR3## wherein: R.sub.5 represents an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group, is caused to effect in said layer under the influence of information-wise heating an information-wise reduction of a reducible reaction partner.

Abstract: Photo-sensitive film-forming soluble polymeric materials containing one or two polymers which can be insolubilized photochemically are disclosed. These polymeric materials contain in the same or different polymers (A) components which are reactive with moieties obtained by the photochemical decomposition of azidosulphonyl groups, e.g., a hydroxyl radical, pyridine, a phenyl radical, or a lactam radical; and (B) azidosulphonyl groups. The photo-sensitive material is insolubilized by exposure to actinic light. The material is useful in the production of photographic resists, printing plates for lithography, and the like.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a planographic printing plate wherein a sheet material comprising an outer hardenable hydrophilic colloid layer on whose surface is concentrated a visible silver image that has been formed thereon from silver halide complexes according to the silver complex diffusion transfer process, is treated with an aqueous lithographic fixer having a pH in the range of 1.0 to 6.5 and containing1. an iron(III) salt of a polyaminopolycarboxylic acid as oxidizing agent for the silver image,2. a compound yielding in dissolved state iodide ions as precipitating agent for silver ions, and3. an organic onium compound.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording material that is capable of producing directly a visible image as a result of an image-wise exposure to activating electromagnetic radiation and which contains an intimate mixture comprising:1. at least one ultra-violet radiation-sensitive organic polyhalogen compound, and2. a dye precursor compound corresponding to the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 represents (1) a substituted aryl group, at least one substituent of the substituted aryl group being an ether group R.sub.6 --O-- in which R.sub.6 represents a hydrocarbon group, including a substituted hydrocarbon group or (2) a heterocyclic group including a substituted heterocyclic group,R.sub.2 represents a substituted aryl group, at least one substituent of the substituted aryl group, being an ether group R.sub.6 --O--, in which R.sub.

Abstract: A recording process, wherein an organic reducing compound being present in a supported or self-supporting layer and corresponding to one of the following general formulae (I) and (II): ##EQU1## wherein: R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, an aliphatic group of a cycloaliphatic group, andR.sub.2 represents an aliphatic oxy group, a cycloaliphatic oxy group, an aryloxy group, an amino group of the formula ##EQU2## in which R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 (same or different) represent hydrogen, an aliphatic, a cycloaliphatic or an aromatic group or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent together the necessary atoms to close a heterocyclic nitrogen containing nucleus; ##EQU3## wherein: R.sub.5 represents an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group, is caused to effect in said layer under the influence of information-wise heating an information-wise reduction of a reducible reaction partner.

Abstract: A photographic process wherein a visible image is formed by print-out or optical development in a recording material comprising in intimate admixture a spiropyran compound, an ultra-violet light-sensitive compound capable of producing an exposure with ultra-violet light with the spiropyran a dye salt and as sensitizing agent an organic nitrogen containing compound having a thiol group or in its tautomeric form a thione group as represented in the following tautomeric structural parts : ##EQU1## Preferred recording materials contain a spirodinaphthopyran compound, carbon tetrabromide and/or iodoform and as sensitizing agent 2-mercaptobenzthiazole in conjunction with a triaryl stibine as antifogging agent.