Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive emulsion containing a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a compound represented by the following formula (A-1) or (B) and a compound represented by the following formula (A-2).

Abstract: A photothermographic imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a binder, and a reducing agent for silver ions, wherein the reducing agent is represented by the following Formula (S):  wherein Z is a group of atoms necessary to form a non aromatic ring of 3 to 10 members; Rx is a hydrogen or an alkyl group; each Ro′ and Ro″ is independently a hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; Qo is a substituent; and each n and m is independently an integer of 0 to 2; and plural Qos may be the same or different.

Abstract: Antistatic compositions include a fluorochemical that is a reaction product of Rf—CH2CH2—SO3H with an amine wherein Rf comprises 4 or more fully fluorinated carbon atoms. These antistatic compositions can be formulated in organic solvent-based conductive coating compositions, with or without hydrophobic binders, that can be used to form conductive layers in thermally developable materials including thermographic and photothermographic materials.

Abstract: The invention provides a heat developable photosensitive material including a substrate, and at least one constituent layer which contains a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for thermal developing and a binder. The material includes at least one reducing agent that does not form a dye at the time of thermal developing and at least one reducing forming a dye at the time of thermal developing, and the dye-forming reducing agent is more active than the reducing agent that does not form a dye at the time of thermal developing.

Abstract: The present invention provides the photothermographic material including a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for reducing silver ions, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content ranging from 40 mol % to 100 mol %, and has a particle size ranging from 5 nm to 80 nm, and wherein the non-photosensitive organic silver salt is prepared in the presence of the photosensitive silver halide which has been preformed, such that the non-photosensitive organic silver salt includes the photosensitive silver halide.

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support, an organic silver salt, a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a contrast-increasing agent, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a secondary or tertiary amino group-containing alkoxysilane compound and a polyethyleneimine. A light-shielding package of photothermographic material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A photothermographic material including, on one side of a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, and, on the other side of the support, a non-photosensitive back side layer. The total quantity of an alkaline earth metal contained in the non-photosensitive back side layer is 1×10−5 mol/m2 to 1×10−3 mol/m2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material, comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic solvent salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder on one face of a support, for being applied by using an organic solvent, the photothermographic material further comprising at least one compound selected from the group of compounds consisting of: a compound represented by the following general formula (1), a compound having a &bgr;-lactam ring, a compound having a group that is adsorptive to a silver halide and a group that reduces a silver halide and a precursor thereof: 1

Abstract: Thermally developable materials that comprise a support have at least two backside layers. One of these layers can be a protective layer comprising a film-forming polymer. The materials also includes a non-imaging backside conductive layer comprising non-acicular metal antimonate particles in a mixture of two or more polymers that includes a first polymer serving to promote adhesion of the backside conductive layer directly to the support or other layers, and a second polymer that is different than and forms a single phase mixture with the first polymer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material including a support having disposed on one surface of the support, at least one image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a development accelerator and a binder, and at least one protective layer on the identical surface, wherein 50% by mass or more of the binder contained in the image forming layer is a water soluble binder, and the reducing agent is contained in the form of a solid dispersion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation-sensitive recording material for the production of offset printing plates having a dimensionally stable support, a radiation-sensitive layer located on the front of the support, and a layer which comprises an organic polymeric material having a glass transition temperature of 35° C. or above and in which pigment particles are embedded and which is resistant to processing chemicals and is located on the back of the support. The pigment particles are preferably silica gel particles having a mean diameter of from 0.1 to 50 &mgr;m or organic particles having a mean diameter of from 3 to 10 &mgr;m. The image layer on the front may be matted or pigmented. The back coating enables the recording material to be stacked without separating paper. The image layer located on the front is not scratched by the pigmented back coating during storage and transport and during removal from the stack.

Abstract: An image forming material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a reducing agent and a protective layer in that order, wherein the image forming layer or the protective layer contains a binder having a structure unit represented by the following formula 1

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having layers containing a swellable inorganic stratifying compound on both sides of a support and having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on at least one of the layers. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material showing good dimensional stability.

Abstract: A process of producing a solid dispersion of an organic compound comprising a step in which after solid dispersing an organic compound, a temperature is elevated stepwise to subject the dispersion to heat treatment.

Abstract: This invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one silver halide containing imaging layer and a cushioning layer below said at least one imaging layer having a compression percentage of between 5 and 25%.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic label comprising a pragmatic polymer sheet, at least one layer comprising at least one image forming layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains and dye forming coupler above said pragmatic polymer sheet, wherein said at least one image forming layer has an exposure time to obtain a usable Dmax of 1.5 of less than 0.01 seconds, wherein said at least one image forming layer is substantially free of image dye stabilizers, and wherein said polymer sheet has an L* of greater than 95.

Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising a support and having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains, binder and a reducing agent, wherein the reducing agent comprises: a reducing agent A containing at least a bisphenol derivative represented by following Formula (A-1); and a reducing agent B containing at least a bisphenol derivative not represented by the Formula (A-1), and the amount of reducing agent A is 5 to 45 weight % of the total weight of the reducing agent A and reducing agent B.

Abstract: A silver salt photohermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer containing light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, wherein the photohermographic material exhibits a gradation of 2.0 to 5.0 within the density region of 0.5 and 2.0 on a photographic characteristic curve obtained when the photothermographic material is subjected to exposure of 50 &mgr;J/cm2 and thermal development at 124° C. for 16 sec.; the light-sensitive layer comprises lower and upper layers and a glass transition temperature of a binder contained in the lower layer being higher than that of a binder contained in the upper layer.

Abstract: The present invention is a photographic element which includes a support, at least one silver-halide emulsion layer superposed on the support and a processing-solution-permeable overcoat overlying the silver-halide emulsion layer that becomes water-resistant in the final product, without requiring lamination or fusing. The presence, in the coating composition, of a compound comprising a blocked copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide has been found to improve wet durability, prevent the retention of iron, and improve the conversion of the overcoat to a water-resistant layer during processing. The present invention is also directed to a method of making a photographic print involving developing the photographic element.

Abstract: Thermally developable materials include a reducing agent composition that can reduce silver ions and provide high contrast images. The reducing agent composition includes a) a hindered phenol reducing agent, an aromatic di- or tri-hydroxy compound, or mixtures thereof, and b) a thermally-releasable p-phenylenediamine co-developer that is represented by the following Structure I: R—NH-BLOCK  (I) wherein R—NH— is a p-phenylenediamine group and BLOCK is a blocking group that is cleaved upon exposure to at least 120° C. for at least 5 seconds and comprises one or more of the following thermally cleavable groups: —CONH—, —COO—, —CONHSO2—, —PO3—, —SO2—, —COCH2NHCO—, or —COS—, and BLOCK is directly linked to R—NH— through one of the thermally cleavable groups.

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic imaging material is disclosed, comprising a support provided thereon with a light sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, a light sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein at least one side of the support is provided with a sublayer containing a metal oxide in an amount of 5 to 50% by volume and the surface of the sublayer exhibiting a maximum height (Ry) of not more than 0.1 &mgr;m.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging member comprising a duplitized imaging layer and a support comprising at least one layer comprising an inorganic particle having an aspect ratio of at least 10 to 1, a lateral dimension of from 0.01 &mgr;m to 5 &mgr;m, and a vertical dimension from 0.5 nm to 10 nm, and polymeric resin matrix.

Abstract: The present invention provides a spectrally sensitized photothermographic silver halide element support having a first surface and a second surface, a photothermographic composition that is to be exposed to a laser being disposed on the first surface of the support. The element has at least one back layer disposed on the second surface of the support. The photothermographic composition comprises silver halide emulsion grains having a number average grain size of less than 0.1 &mgr;m and that are spectrally sensitized with a sensitizing dye having a spectral sensitivity that corresponds to the spectral properties of the laser. The photothermographic composition further comprises an organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and at least one dye. In addition, the photothermographic composition has a transmission optical density greater than 0.1 at the exposure wavelength, and the back layer has a transmission optical density greater than 0.1 at the exposure wavelength.

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, further thereon a protective layer and optionally an interlayer between the support and the image forming layer, wherein at least one of the image forming layer and the interlayer contains an alkoxy-silane compound having at least two primary or secondary amino groups or a salt thereof or a Schiff base formed through dehydration condensation of an alkoxy-silane compound having at least one primary amino group and a ketone compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat developable light sensitive material comprising a support and a constituent layer disposed on one surface of the support and including a light sensitive layer, wherein the constituent layer includes a binder, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ion, light sensitive silver halide grains, and at least one polymer binder selected from a group consisting of polyvinyl butyral, cellulose acetate, cellulose butyrate and derivatives thereof, and a mercury content of the constituent layer is no more than 1 mg/m2, and a logarithmic value of the cross sectional resistance value (&OHgr;) of the light sensitive material is no more than 12, and a coated amount of silver is no more than 1.9 g/m2, and image forming methods using the above-described heat developable light sensitive material.

Abstract: A method for wrapping a heat-developable photosensitive material, which comprises bending a wrapping material so that the wrapping material can bring into direct contact with at least a part of a heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt having a silver behenate content of not lower than 53 mol % provided on one side of a support, wherein the wrapping material is a paper.

Abstract: A water-based coating composition is disclosed, comprising a latex comprising a polymer impregnated with an infared absorbing compound and a water-soluble polyester or latex comprising polyer containing an active methylene group. An infrared absorbing film and a photothermographic material by use thereof are also disclosed.

Abstract: A solid dispersion of a compound for use in photography, the dispersion comprising a dispersoid including an organic compound and a dispersion medium, wherein the average settling velocity (v25) of the dispersoid at 25° C., which velocity is represented by the following equation (1), is no more than 5.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer on a transparent support, wherein the transparent support is a plastic support having two surfaces undercoated with an undercoat solution containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a water-miscible organic solvent except for alcohols, a substituted phenol having a molecular weight of 200 or less, and a substituted acetic acid in which at least one hydrogen atom on a methyl group of acetic acid is substituted with a halogen atom, and at least one photosensitive emulsion layer contains a specific coupler.

Abstract: A producing method of a fatty acid silver salt is described, which comprises adding (1) a solution of silver ions comprising water or a mixed solution of an organic solvent and water containing therein silver ions, and (2) a solution of a fatty acid alkali metal salt which is a solution or a suspension comprising water, an organic solvent, or a mixed solution of water and an organic solvent, containing therein an alkali metal salt of a fatty acid to a closed mixing means to react the solution (1) and the solution (2), wherein from 50 to 99.5 mol % of the entire fatty acid alkali metal salt solution is added to the closed mixing means under such a condition that the concentration of the fatty acid alkali metal salt is higher than the silver ion concentration, and from 0.5 to 30 mol % of the entire fatty acid alkali metal salt solution is added to the closed mixing means or to the downstream of the closed mixing means after the silver ion solution has been added to the closed mixing means.

Abstract: The present invention is a photographic element which includes a support, at least one silver-halide emulsion layer superposed on the support and a processing-solution-permeable overcoat overlying the silver-halide emulsion layer that becomes water-resistant in the final product, without requiring lamination or fusing. The presence, in the coating composition, of a compound comprising a blocked copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide has been found to improve wet durability, prevent the retention of iron, and improve the conversion of the overcoat to a water-resistant layer during processing. The present invention is also directed to a method of making a photographic print involving developing the photographic element.

Abstract: A photothermographic recording material comprising a photo-addressable thermally developable element coatable from aqueous media comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a reducing agent in thermal working relationship with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, characterized in that the binder comprises a water-soluble polymer, a water-dispersible polymer or a mixture of a water-soluble polymer and a water-dispersible polymer and particles of the photosensitive silver halide are non-aggregating in the photo-addressable thermally developable element and are uniformly distributed over and between particles of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, at least 80% by number of the particles having a diameter, determined by transmission electron microscopy, of ≦40 nm; and a recording process therefor.

Abstract: The present invention is a photographic element which includes, in order, a transparent support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer superposed on the support, optionally a white or diffuse reflective layer, and a processing-solution-permeable protective layer on the backside, which protective layer becomes water-resistant in the final product without lamination or fusing. The present invention is also directed to a method of making a photographic print involving developing the photographic element. The resulting print is viewed through the support, which provides protection against scratches and stains, while the polymeric overcoat provides water and stain protection to the reverse of the print where minor scratches or damage are not critical, since the image is not viewed from this side. Thus, this invention provides for a tough, stain resistant and transparent viewing surface and a stain resistant back side, which is permeable to processing solutions.

Abstract: Since a coating film is cured to some extent by the gelation of the coating film in the chilling-zone process and the first-stage drying in the PAC drying process, then, it is fully dried by the second-stage drying in the HAC drying process, liquid scattering from the surface of the coating film during drying can be prevented, even if the binder is difficult to cure as in the coating film for a thermal-developable light-sensitive material. Thereby, good coating film surface condition and good photographic performance can be obtained.

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic imaging material is disclosed, comprising a support provided thereon with a light sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, a light sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein at least one side of the support is provided with a sublayer containing a metal oxide in an amount of 5 to 50% by volume and the surface of the sublayer exhibiting a maximum height (Ry) of not more than 0.1 &mgr;m.

Abstract: A heat developable light-sensitive material high in heat development activity, excellent in image keeping quality, high in sensitivity and rapidly developable, comprising a support having provided on one side thereof a light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion and a binder, wherein the reducing agent is a compound represented by the formula (I), and an aromatic carboxylic acid compound represented by the formula (A) and a hydrogen bonding compound are further provided on the same side where the light-sensitive silver halide is provided.

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive layer comprising an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein after the photothermographic material having been developed at a temperature of not less than 100° C. is subjected to exposure to light of an illumination intensity of 300 lux at 45° C. for 24 hrs., the rate of variation in fog density between before and after exposure is not more than 30%, based on the fog density of the photothermographic material before exposure.

Abstract: A single-side coated light-sensitive silver halide photographic film material has been disclosed, having on one side of a subbed support, one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer(s) overcoated with an outermost protective layer; and, at the other side of said support, a backing layer, covered with a protective outermost layer, characterized in that at least said backing layer is provided with a layer wherein, besides a cross-linked or cross-linkable first binder an organic component free from cross-linking upon reaction with a hardener is present as a second binder having a low molecular weight.

Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging label comprising in order an environmental protection layer, an image formed by means of silver halide, a base, an adhesive, and a peelable back wherein said environmental protection layer comprises a mixture of vinyl polymer and urethane polymer wherein said urethane polymer has an indentation modulus less than 0.6 GPa and wherein said environmental protection layer is less than 10 micrometers in thickness.

Abstract: A transmission heat-development photosensitive material having an exposure wavelength of 750 nm or shorter having a property that an adsorbance of the material with respect to an exposing wavelength before an exposure and development process is 0.5 or smaller and a highest density of 2.8 can be realized with energy which is not larger than 7 times (in a case of a negative-type material) exposing energy required to realize a density of 1.2 or not smaller than {fraction (1/7)} (in a case of a positive-type material) of the exposing energy.

Abstract: Optical brighteners are widely used for decreasing the apparent yellowness of polymeric materials. Polyethylene, as a coating film for photographic paper has presented unique problems because of its general lack of compatibility with conventional, large, fluorescent brightener molecules. The present invention provides a solution to this problem by incorporating into the polyethylene an optical brightener compatibilizing amount of a second polyolefin having alkyl groups pendant from the polymer backbone which serves to reduce the exudation of the optical brightener in articles or substrates comprised of or coated with such compositions.

Abstract: A method for producing an image comprising a step for heat-developing after light exposure a photothermographic material containing elsewhere on a support a non-photosensitive organic acid silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a nucleation aid, a binder and at least one compound expressed by the formula (A) below, at a line speed of 140 cm/min or faster: [where R1, R2, R3, X1 and X2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom or the like; at least either one of X1 and X2 is a group expressed as —NR4R5, where R4 and R5 independently represents a hydrogen atom, alkyl group or the like] is provided. The method for producing an image of the present invention is successful in raising Dmax (maximum density), suppressing increase in fog during a long-term storage, and suppressing dimensional instability of line width affected by the energy of exposure.

Abstract: A heat-developable image-recording material which is heat-developed at a development temperature of from 80° C. to 140° C., and comprises, on both sides of a support, undercoat layers comprising a vinylidene chloride copolymer containing at least 70% by weight of vinylidene chloride monomer repeating units and having a thickness of 0.3 &mgr;m or more for each.

Abstract: A surface treatment method for enhancing hydrophobicity of the surface of a film support is disclosed, comprising subjecting at least one side of the surface to a gas-discharge plasma treatment in a gas phase atmosphere comprising (a) an inert gas comprising argon or helium and (b) a reactive gas comprising a hydrocarbon gas or fluorinated hydrocarbon gas. There is also disclosed a photothermographic material by the use of the support having been subjected to the surface treatment.

Abstract: In the case where multiple slide hopper is used for simultaneous multilayer bead coating of photosensitive material, streak defect is occasionally cause, particularly in the case of coating photothermographic material, especially when the outermost layer includes materials capable of increasing optical density such as toner it more frequently happens. It is found that streak defect is restrained when meniscus curvature of upper side bead becomes less than 7.2 mm−1. This condition can be kept by selecting a proper value of clearance between the web surface and the lip of the slide hopper, that is from 0.10 mm to 0.40 mm, and a proper value of pressure in a lower side of the bead, that is from −100 Pa to −700 Pa.

Abstract: The present invention is a photographic element which includes, in order, a transparent support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer superposed on the support, optionally a white or diffuse reflecttive layer, and a processing-solution-permeable protective layer on the backside, which protective layer becomes water-resistant in the final product without lamination or fusing. The present invention is also directed to a method of making a photographic print involving developing the photographic element. The resulting print is viewed through the support, which provides protection against scratches and stains, while the polymeric overcoat provides water and stain protection to the reverse of the print where minor scratches or damage are not critical, since the image is not viewed from this side. Thus, this invention provides for a tough, stain resistant and transparent viewing surface and a stain resistant back side, which is permeable to processing solutions.

Abstract: A process is described for healing scratches on the base side of an imaged motion picture film element comprising a polymeric film base having one or more image layers on one side thereof, the process comprising applying an aqueous coating formulation comprised of an aqueous dispersion of a polyurethane to the scratched base side of the motion picture film element, and drying the applied coating formulation to form a polyurethane layer, wherein the polyurethane comprises an aliphatic polyurethane which has a Young's modulus at 100% elongation to break of less than 4000 psi and a Sward hardness value of at least 60. Scratch healing formulations employed in accordance with the invention provide coated layers with superior resistance to blocking, cleaning solvents, and abrasion, and which are more flexible, dry faster, and are more effective in hiding minor scratches than that disclosed in the prior art.

Abstract: A heat developable photosensitive material comprising at least two layers is disclosed. The first layer is formed by coating a first coating composition containing the organic silver salt, the photosensitive silver halide, the reducing agent, polymer latex in an amount of at least 30 percent by weight of the first layer at dried state and a solvent, the solvent comprising water in an amount of at least 50 percent by weight of the solvent, and the second layer is formed by coating a second coating composition comprising a polymer latex in an amount of at least 50 percent of the second layer at dried state and a solvent, the solvent comprising water in an amount of at least 60 percent by weight of the solvent, and the second coating composition having a viscosity of from 50 to 1,000 cP at 25 ° C., and the viscosity at 5° C being at least 1.5 times higher than that at 25° C.

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image recording layer comprising an organic silver salt, a silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the outermost surface of the image recording layer side of the photothermographic material exhibits a difference in center-line mean roughness of not more than 10 nm between before and after being subjected to thermal processing.

Abstract: A fusing belt comprising a substrate and a coating on the substrate wherein the coating comprises a resin containing a cured silsesquioxane polymer and wherein the belt is used in combination with a photographic element.