Abstract: Disclosed is a color image-stabilization processing solution for a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one of (a) an N-methylol compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to form a 1H-pyrazole ring or 1H-1,2,4-triazole ring together with the nitrogen atom; and (b) an N-methylol compound satisfying the condition that an equilibrium constant in water at room temperature is 2.times.10.sup.-2. mol/liter or less and a formaldehyde-releasing rate constant is 1.times.10.sup.-5 sec.sup.-1 or more. This solution permits one to dispense formaldehyde and its attendant risks. Also disclosed is a method for processing silver halide color photographic materials using such a solution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in which water for preventing the concentration of processing solution in a processing tank from being increased due to evaporation and a replenisher for avoiding a lowering of the effectiveness of the processing solution are added to the processing tank of a photographic processing apparatus. Before the processing tank is replenished with a replenisher, the processing tank is replenished with water by an amount corresponding to the amount of water evaporated therefrom until the liquid surface level reaches the original liquid surface level i.e. replacing evaporated water, and then, the processing tank is replenished with replenisher. Thereafter, the processing solution is discharged by an amount equal to the amount of replenisher added in order to return the liquid surface level to the original liquid surface level. Thus, the performance of the processing solution can be restored while the concentration of the processing solution is kept constant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material subjected to imagewise exposure, substantially through a color developing step, a bleach-fixing step and a stabilizing step in this order, wherein at least one layer of the light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprises a silver halide containing not less than 80 mol % of silver chloride, the washing-substitutive stabilizing step is carried out in a processing time of not more than 45 seconds, and a washing-substitutive stabilizing solution used in the washing-substitutive stabilizing step has a salt concentration of at least 1,000 ppm. Disclosed are also a washing-substitutive stabilizing solution and a kit of a stabilizer used for the method of this invention.

Abstract: Disclosed in a color photograph containing a storability-improving compound capable of forming a chemical bond with an aromatic amine series color developing agent that remains in a photographic material after having been processed for color development to give a chemically inactive and substantially colorless compound in at least one photographic layer on a support. Also disclosed is a method for preparation of color photographs wherein a photographic material containing a silver halide emulsion layer and a color image-forming coupler capable of forming a dye by an oxidation-coupling reaction with an aromatic amine series color developing agent, as coated on a support, is imagewise exposed to light and then subjected to photographic processing, comprising carrying out the photographic processing in the presence of the afore described storability-improving compound.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, wherein a silver halide color photographic material A comprising silver halide grains with a total amount of silver coated of 2 g/m.sup.2 to 10 g/m.sup.2 and another silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material B comprising silver halide grains with a total amount of silver coated of not more than 1 g/m.sup.

Abstract: A method of processing a color negative photographic recording material containing tabular grain silver halide emulsion units wherein the fixing agent comprises an aqueous solution of thiosulfate with low ammonium concentration. The silver halide emulsion in at least one of the units comprises grains having a tabularity of between about 50 and 25,000. The photographic recording material has a silver coverage of less than about 7.0 g/m.sup.2, and an iodide coverage of less than about 0.35 g/m.sup.2. The fixing bath has an ammonium concentration of less than about 1.2 molar, and ammonium may be absent entirely.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material paper base of which contains at least one of specified sizing agents with a color developer containing a hydroxylamine compound. According to the disclosure edge stain due to penetration of the color developer into the paper base is prevented.

Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided, containing at least one coupler represented by formula (C-I) and at least one compound represented by formula (A-I) or (A-II) ##STR1## wherein Q.sub.1 represents an atomic group containing at least one nitrogen atom required to form a 5- or more membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring together with the carbon atoms to which it is bonded; Z.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-off group; R.sub.C1 represents an acyl or sulfonyl group; and R.sub.C2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1-8 aliphatic group, or the substituents for R.sub.C1, R.sub.C2, Z.sub.1, or Q.sub.1 form a dimeric or polymeric coupler; ##STR2## wherein R represents a hydrogen atoms, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, or a hydrolyzable protective group; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and R.sub.

Abstract: A method for continuously processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, comprising the steps of developing with a color developer, bleaching with a processing bath having a bleaching ability comprising a bleaching agent in a concentration of at least 0.15 mol/liter, water washing and/or stabilizing with at least two sequential processing tanks, and drying the thus processed photographic material, wherein the equilibrium iron concentration of the processing solution in the tank immediately preceding the final tank of the water washing and/or stabilizing step is from 100 to 500 ppm and the equilibrium iron concentration is at least seven times that of the processing solution in the final tank of the water washing and/or stabilizing step, and the time from the start of the bleaching step to the completion of the water washing and/or stabilizing step is not more than 65 seconds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic material which comprises on a base at least one silver halide emulsion layer that is made up of at least one coupler and silver halide grains of high silver-chloride and at least one-non-photosensitive layer containing at least one oil-soluble color-mixing inhibitor and at least a homopolymer or copolymer represented by formula (I), with or without one of the substantially non-diffusible oil-soluble compounds represented by formula (II) or (III), and a method for forming an image by developing said silver halide color photographic material. The disclosure as described provides a color photographic material and a method for forming an image that is excellent in image quality and in color separation and has less mixing of colors.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which comprises subjecting an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic photosensitive material to color development process followed by bleach-fixing process and water washing and/or stabilization process. This method is characterized in that pH of the bleach-fixing solution ranges from 3.5 to 5.5 and the amount of replenished liquid for washing water and/or stabilization solution is 3 to 50 times the volume of liquid carried over from the bath preceding the water washing and/or the stabilization bath.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photosensitive material, which comprises developing a silver halide color photosensitive material containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula [A], bis or tris compounds and polymers derived therefrom, and alkali unstable precursors thereof, in a color developer which is replenished at a rate of not more than 9 ml per 100 cm.sup.2 of the silver halide color photosensitive material; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.a and R.sub.b each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, --SO.sub.3 M, --COOM (wherein M represents H, an alkali metal atom or NH.sub.4), an alkyl group, an acylamino group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkythio group, an arylthio group, a sulfonyl group, an acyl group, a carbamoyl group or a sulfamoyl group and they may together form a carbon ring; X represents a --CO-- group or a --SO.sub.2 -- group; R.sub.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer, which comprises developing the silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent, wherein the photographic material contains (a) at least one high silver chloride content emulsion layer with a silver chloride content of 80 mol % or more, and (b) a compound of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents --COOR.sub.5, ##STR2## --COR.sub.5 --CN or a halogenated methane R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group; Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 each represents an aryl group; X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents a chemical bond or a divalent linking group; Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.

Abstract: Photographic elements are described havinga silver halide emulsion layer,a 2-equivalent 5-pyrazolone coupler is reactive association with said silver halide emulsion, anda competitor for oxidized developer in reactive association with said coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an electron donating group,R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, aryloxy, aralkyl or amino of the formula --NHR.sup.3, where R.sup.3 is phenyl or benzyl, with the proviso that at least one ofthe substitutents R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 (a) represents (1) a ballast group of sufficient size as to render the hydrazide compound non-diffusible in the photographic element prior to development in alkaline processing solution and (b) comprises a polar group, andn is 0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R is hydrogen or hydroxyl, R.sub.1 is alkyl, alkoxy, amino or aryl, and R.sub.2 is hydrocarbylcarbonyl or hydrocarbylsulfonyl, are highly suitable for stabilizing magenta couplers in photographic materials.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having an improved light-fastness of magenta dye image is disclosed.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material, wherein the silver halide color photographic material having a layer containing at leasst one pyrazolone-based magenta coupler having a coupling releasing group represented by formula (I) and at least one compound represented by formula (II), (III), (IV) or (V) is processed with a color developing solution having a developing solution temperature of 36.degree. to 50.degree. C. and a developing solution pH of 10.3 to 12.0; ##STR1##R.sup.11 --Z.sub.2 (IV) ##STR2## wherein the substituents are as defined in the text of the specification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in which water for preventing the concentration of processing solution in a processing tank from being increased due to evaporation and a replenisher for avoiding a lowering of the effectiveness of the processing solution are added to the processing tank of a photographic processing apparatus. Before the processing tank is replenished with a replenisher, the processing tank is replenished with water by an amount corresponding to the amount of water evaporated therefrom until the liquid surface level reaches the original liquid surface level i.e. replacing evaporated water, and then, the processing tank is replenished with replenisher. Thereafter, the processing solution is discharged by an amount equal to the amount of replenisher added in order to return the liquid surface level to the original liquid surface level. Thus, the performance of the processing solution can be restored while the concentration of the processing solution is kept constant.

Abstract: A stabilizing solution for processing silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials and a processing method of silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials using the stabilizing solution are disclosed. The stabilizing solution contains a polyoxyalkylene type compound and a compound selected from triazine type compounds and methylol type compounds.

Abstract: A method for continuously processing silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent is disclosed. In the method a silver halide color photographic material at least one of the layers of which contains a silver halide emulsion of a high chloride comprising 80 mol % or over of silver chloride is processed in the presence of a specific heterocyclic compound, after exposure to light, with a color developer that is substantially free from sulfite ions and whose replenishing amount is 120 ml or below per m.sup.2 of the silver halide photographic material, to attain desired photographic characteristics.

Abstract: A method for forming a color image is described, using an image-wise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising, a reflective support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler that forms a dye by means of a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and silver halide grains comprising silver bromochloride containing not less than 90 mol % silver chloride and substantially not containing silver iodide, said silver halide grains having a localized silver bromide phase having a silver bromide content of not less than 20 mol % and being chemically sensitized at the surface thereof to provide substantially surface latent image type grains, comprising developing the light-sensitive material with a color developing solution containing from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l of chloride ions and from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l of bromide ions.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material after exposure can be efficiently processed in a multi-compartment apparatus comprising a series of processing compartments interconnected through narrow channels to define a continuous processing path, by passing the photosensitive material through the series of compartments along the path. Two or more processing solutions of different compositions are supplied to the path at different positions to fill the compartment with the solutions, while the solution is discharged from the path through an outlet port at an intermediate position. During a quiescent period, the solution is discharged such that the compartment which the photosensitive material first enters and the compartment from which the photosensitive material exits become empty. Operation is restarted by refilling the entrance and exit compartments with fresh solutions.

Abstract: A color photograph comprising a support having provided thereon at least one photographic layer, wherein said at least one photographic layer contains a storage stability improving compound which forms a chemically inert and substantially colorless compound by combining chemically with the oxidation product of an aromatic amine color developing agent remaining in said color photograph after color development processing.

Abstract: A method for the processing of a silver halide photographic material is provided, which comprises the steps of;developing a silver halide photographic material which has been previously exposed to light,processing the developed silver halide photographic material with a bath which contains a thiosulfate and which has a fixing ability, andsubsequently subjecting the developed silver halide photographic material to washing and/or stabilizing in a multi-stage countercurrent process, wherein the multi-stage countercurrent process includes a reverse osmosis membrane and a washing solution and/or stabilizing solution, said solution containing at least one member selected from the group consisting of a sulfinic acid, a sulfinate and a carbonyl compound-bisulfurous acid addition product.

Abstract: In a method for processing at least 2 kinds of silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials comprising the steps of development, bleach-fixing, water washing and/or stabilization, the method comprises processing, in a common bleach-fixing bath and a common water washing or stabilization bath directly subsequent thereto, one silver halide color photographic light sensitive material having, applied to a substrate, a silver halide emulsion layer which contains, on average, not less than 3 mole % of silver iodide and another silver halide color photographic light sensitive material having applied to a substrate a silver halide emulsion layer which is substantially free of silver iodide, the water washing or stabilization bath containing at least one nonionic surfactant. The amount of replenisher for the bleach-fixing bath and the water washing or stabilizing bath is reduced to not more than 400 ml/m.sup.2 for color paper or not more than 800 m1/m.sup.2 for color negative film.

Abstract: An image forming method comprising imagewise exposure and color development of a multilayer silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer containing at least one oil-soluble coupler which is capable of forming a substantially non-diffusible cyan dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is represented by formula (I), and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula (II) or (III) followed by the processing of the multilayer silver halide color photographic material with at least one of a bleaching solution and bleach-fixing solution each having a pH of not higher than 6.3, wherein formula (I), (II) and (III) comprise ##STR1## wherein Y represents --NHCO-- or --CONH--; R.sub.

Abstract: There is provided a color photograph improved in preservability that has been obtained by making chemically inactive the aromatic amine type color developing agents and their oxidized product that remains in the silver halide photographic materials after color development processing. The color photograph exhibits excellent performance in that its white background can be prevented from discoloring even during long-term storage or display, and deterioration of a dye image caused by the remaining color developing agent being taken into the photographic material after the color development, bleaching, and fixing processes, or due to its oxidized product, can be prevented.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent. In the method a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a pyrazoloazole-type coupler and an image-dye stabilizer, and has at least one of the layers comprising a silver halide emulsion of a high silver chloride and the total coating amount of silver of 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or below is processed, after exposure to light, with a color developer containing a specified amount of chloride ions and bromide ions, to improve development treatment characteristics, desilvering ability, and stability of an image.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is provided that contains at least one pyrazoloazole type coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represents ##STR2## or .tbd.N--, R.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: A method for processing silver halide photosensitive materials comprises replenishing each of replenishers to water washing process and/or stabilization process in an amount of 1 to 50 times the volume of a solution carried over from a bath preceding the water washing process and/or the stabilization process per unit area of the photosensitive material and limiting the amount of calcium compounds included in a layer for constituting photograph of the photosensitive material to not more than 25 mg/m.sup.2 on the basis of the weight of elemental calcium. The method makes it possible to effectively suppress the contamination of the processed photosensitive materials, the increase in turbidity of the water washing and/or stabilization bath solutions and the proliferation of bacteria or molds in these baths. These effects are further enhanced by reducing the amount of calcium and magnesium present in the replenishers for washing and/or stabilization.

Abstract: A method of processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material which comprises subjecting to imagewise exposure a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on i) a substrate coated with a resin cured by irradiation with electron beams or ii) one side or both sides of a substrate of an opaque thermoplastic resin film comprising a synthetic polyester film coated on its one side or both sides with fine particles of white pigment and/or a synthetic polyester film containing said fine particles dispersed in the film and applied with molecular orientation, followed by color developing processing and, after processing by use of processing solution having fixing ability, stabilizing processing without substantially any water washing step. The concentration of silver complex ions in the final stabilizing tank is in the range of 2.times.10.sup.-5 to 2.times.10.sup.-1 mole/liter.

Abstract: A method for continuously processing silver halide color photographic materials using a roller conveyor type of an automatic developing apparatus, comprising:cleaning the entire surface of a roller located over solution surface of at least one of processing baths in the automatic developing apparatus in which at least one of said processing baths comprises the color developing bath by a rinsing water replenisher or a stabilizing replenisher as a substitute for the rinsing water replenisher, andintroducing the cleaning solution into the color developing bath containing at least one organic preservative selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) and monosaccharides; ##STR1## wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents hydrogen atoms, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl groups, unsubstituted or substituted alkenyl groups, unsubstituted or substituted aryl groups or hetero aromatic groups, provided that both of R.sup.11 and R.sup.

Abstract: A processing tank is partitioned into a plurality of compartments which are serially connected to define a continuous processing path having an entrance and an exit for photosensitive material. The path is filled with a processing solution having a desilvering function such that the processing solution in at least one compartment has a different composition from the processing solution in at least one of the remaining compartments. Silver halide photosensitive material is successively passed through the compartments without contact with the ambient air. Desilvering the photosensitive material after exposure and development in this way reduces the amount of processing solution used, especially replenished, while achieving improved photographic properties.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprises treating a silver halide photographic material with a bath having fixing ability and then washing with water and/or stabilizing the photosensitive material and characterized in that the amount of replenisher for water washing or stabilization is controlled so that it is 1 to 50 times the volume of liquid carried over by the photosensitive material processed from the bath preceding the water washing bath or the stabilization bath and that the photosensitive material comprises, for instance, compounds (13): ##STR1## The method makes it possible to substantially keep the image performance of the photosensitive material processed high while substantially saving the amount of washing water or the stabilization liquid and substantially shortening the water washing or the stabilization time.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I or II ##STR1## in which R, R.sup.0, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are as defined in claim 1. The compounds, some of which are novel, are light stabilizers for color photographic recording materials.

Abstract: In a method for processing silver halide photosensitive materials comprising developing an exposed silver halide photosensitive material, fixing the developed material and washing it with a washing water, the amount of calcium and magnesium compounds present in the replenishing washing water is reduced to not more than 5 mg/l on the basis of the weight of elemental calcium or magnesium and washing water is replenished in an amount of 1 to 50 times the volume of liquid carried over by the photosensitive material from a bath preceding the washing bath per unit area thereof or that the replenishing washing water is introduced into a washing bath after reducing the amount of calcium and magnesium compounds to the range mentioned above and sterilizing the same. The method makes it possible to substantially reduce the amount of washing water while reliably suppressing turbidity and proliferation of microorganisms in the washing water during and after completion of processing.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising imagewise exposing the material and continuously processing the material in an automatic processor wherein the bleach-fixing bath contains(i) at least one organic acid ferric complex salt, and(ii) at least one sulfinic acid, and the open area value (X) of said bleach-fixing bath and the water washing bath during the processing is not more than 0.05 cm.sup.-1.

Abstract: A process for stabilizing the magenta dye image in a photographic color element comprises the step of treating the element after the step of color developing and prior to the step of bleaching or bleach-fixing with an aqueous solution that has a pH in the range of 7 to 10 and contains an effective amount of an alkali metal formaldehyde bisulfite.

Abstract: A method for processing silver halide photosensitive materials comprising developing an exposed silver halide photosensitive material, fixing the developed photosensitive material and then washing it with a washing water, the washing water used in the water washing process being replenished in an amount of 2 to 50 times the volume of liquid carried over by the photosensitive material from a bath preceding the water washing bath per unit area thereof, the amount of calcium and magnesium compounds present in the water washing bath being reduced to not more than 5 mg/l, respectively, on the basis of elemental calcium and magnesium and the washing water containing at least one chelating agent having a stability constant of a chelate, which is formed between the chelating agent and calcium or magnesium, of at least 6 is herein disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an infrared absorbent composition comprising at least one of the metal complex compounds represented by formulae (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein [Cat] represents a cation necessary for neutralizing the complex; n represents 1 or 2; M represents Cu, Co, Ni, Pd, or Pt; and R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; and two R's in the same ligand may combine with each other to form a ring.

Abstract: A method for processing silver halide photosensitive materials is described which includes processing an imagewise-exposed silver halide photosensitive material in a bath which has a fixing ability and then at least one of washing and stabilizing the photosensitive materials in a multi-stage counter-flow system, wherein liquid from at least one of a water washing tank and a stabilizing tank is treated using a reverse osmosis membrane and the treated liquid is recycled to at least one of the water washing tank and the stabilizing tank, and at least a tank at the stage at which the liquid is removed for the reverse osmosis membrane treatment has an open fraction of not more than 0.03.

Abstract: A process for processing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which comprises processing a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one compound represented by formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; A represents a group forming a chemical bond by reaction with an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; n represents 0 or 1; X represents a group released on reaction with an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; B represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, or a sulfonyl group; and Y represents a group accelerating the addition of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent to the compound of formula (II), and said R.sub.1 and X or said Y and R.sub.

Abstract: A silver image produced by imagewise exposure, development and fixing of a photographic material containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer is stabilized by being subjected after fixing to treatment by a stabilizing bath containing a compound corresponding to general formula IR.sub.1 --(NHCO--R.sub.2 --R.sub.3).sub.m (I)in whichR.sub.1 represents a nitrogen-containing 5- or 6-membered heterocycle,R.sub.2 represents an optionally branched C.sub.1-8 alkylene radical,R.sub.3 represents Cl or Br andm=1 or 2.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises the steps of developing the light-sensitive material with a color developer containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, desilvering, washing with water and/or stabilizing the material in which at least one processing solution used in at least one step of the processing contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of sulfinic acids and salts and precursors thereof. This method makes it possible to effectively prevent the formation of stains due to not only the components of the light-sensitive material per se but also those attributable to the processing solutions, during processing or storage with time, and to enhance the stability of processing solutions.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed.The process step comprises developing a color photographic light-sensitive material composed of a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide containing at least 80 mol % silver chloride; at least one emulsion layer thereof containing a dispersion of a mixture of (i) at least one oil-soluble non-diffusible cyan coupler capable of forming a substantially non-diffusible cyan dye by coupling with the oxidized form of a developing agent, and (ii) a water-insoluble polymer;in a color developer solution comprising a primary amine color developing agent, and having a chloride ion concentration of from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l, and a bromide ion concentration of from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material for prints comprising a color developing step, a bleach-fixing step, and either a stabilizing step or a water washing step is described, wherein the silver halide color photographic material comprises a reflective support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol % and substantially not containing silver iodide, and the color developing step is conducted using a processing solution that does not substantially contain benzyl alcohol.According to the method of the present invention, the amount of water required in a water washing step or a stabilizing step can be greatly reduced without decreasing liquid stability of the water for washing or the stabilizing solution, and color prints having improved preservability are obtained.

Abstract: The invention is performed by providing a first flow of water and surfactant, a second flow comprising solvent, base and photographic material, and mixing said first and second streams and either simultaneously or immediately following thereof neutralizing said streams to prevent hydrolysis of a hydrolyzable surfactant and/or premature precipitation of particles before neutralization. The streams then may be immediately treated for formation into photographic materials. In a preferred method the first and second stream may be brought together immediately prior to a mixer with addition of acid directly into the mixer to neutralize the dispersion of fine particles.

Abstract: A processing method without washing gives good photographic properties, without a precipitate being deposited in the stabilizing bath, when the bleach-fixing bath contains a compound of the formulaFe(X).sub.2 DTPA,whereinX denotes alkali or ammonium,as bleaching agent, and the stabilizing bath contains a fungicide, HEDP and a hexametaphosphate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of stabilizing an organic base substance having an absorption mixture in the range of from about 300 nm to about 200 nm, against light, by combining the organic substance and at least one complex of formulae (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.1 to R.sup.5, R.sup.10 to R.sup.14 and R.sup.17 to R.sup.21, each of which may be the same or different within an individual compound, represents a halogen atom, a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl or heterocyclic group which is bonded to the carbon atom on the benzene ring directly or indirectly via a divalent linking group, and these may be same or different and the adjacent substituents may be bonded together to form a ring;R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, and these may be the same or different;R.sup.8, R.sup.9, R.sup.15, R.sup.16, R.sup.22 and R.sup.

Abstract: A method of processing a silver halide color photographic material in which the color developer used comprises an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and a compound of formula: ##STR1## wherein X represents a trivalent group necessary to complete a condensed ring;R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an alkylene group, an arylene group, an alkenylene group, or an aralkylene group;and, if desired, does not contain a substantial amount of benzyl alcohol to achieve improved stability and color developability of the color developer and a reduction of fog generation in the running development process.