Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for making a lithographic printing plate according to the silver salt diffusion transfer process using a photographic material comprising on a support a silver halide emulsion layer and a layer containing physical development nuclei comprising the steps of:image-wise exposing said photographic material anddeveloping a thus obtained image-wise exposed photographic material by guiding said image-wise exposed photographic material through an alkaline processing liquid in 15 s or less; characterized in that said alkaline processing liquid comprises a hydrophobizing compound having a mercapto group that has a pK.sub.a of 4.5 or less.
Abstract:
A film unit for use in a silver salt diffusion transfer image-forming process is disclosed. The film unit includes a light-sensitive element, an alkaline treating element, and an image-receiving element. The light-sensitive element includes a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion which contains silver bromoiodide or silver bromoiodochloride having a silver iodide content of 0.5 to 3.5 mol %, wherein silver bromoiodide having a silver iodide content of 1 to 5 mol % is formed on the surface of the silver halide grains in an amount of from 3 to 10% on a silver basis after completion of chemical sensitization. The alkaline treating element contains a water-soluble iodide in an amount of from 0.3 to 3.0 mM/l and tetrahydrophyrimidinethione in an amount of from 0.3 to 3.0 mM/l. The film unit allows rapid completion of transfer images without loss of photographing sensitivity. Pitch-black images can be obtained rapidly without the need for image stabilizing treatments. A silver salt diffusion transfer image-forming process employing the film unit is also disclosed.
Abstract:
An aqueous alkaline processing liquid suitable for use in the silver complex diffusion transfer reversal (DTR-) process, wherein said liquid contains 3-(N,N-diethylamino)propane-1,2-diol and contains phosphate ions in a concentration of not more than 0.03 mol/l.
Abstract:
A method for image formation by a diffusion transfer process including developing an imagewise light-exposed light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of a developing agent, a silver halide solvent and an alkali, wherein at least two cyclic imide compounds represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z represents an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered imido ring containing from 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms, are used as the silver halide solvent is disclosed. Images obtained by the method are stable during storage over a long period of time.
Abstract:
Difunctional compounds wherein one of said functions is a hard or soft atom that ionizes to the corresponding anion in alkaline solution to combine with silver cation and the other of said functions is a non-ionizable soft base that additionally combines with said silver cation are employed as silver halide complexing agents in photography. In a preferred embodiment, the difunctional compounds possess (a) an O, N or C atom that ionizes to the corresponding O.crclbar., N.crclbar. or C.crclbar. anion in basic solution and (b) an --S-- containing moiety excluding --SH and moieties that form --S.crclbar. in basic solution wherein the --S-- of said moiety is positioned alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon or zeta to said anion.
Abstract:
Difunctional compounds wherein one of said functions is a hard or soft atom that ionizes to the corresponding anion in alkaline solution to combine with silver cation and the other of said functions is a non-ionizable soft base that additionally combines with said silver cation are employed as silver halide complexing agents in photography. In a preferred embodiment, the difunctional compounds possess (a) an O, N or C atom that ionizes to the corresponding O.sup..crclbar., N.sup..crclbar. or C.sup..crclbar. anion in basic solution and (b) an --S-- containing moiety excluding --SH and moieties that form --S.sup..crclbar. in basic solution wherein the --S-- of said moiety is positioned alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon or zeta to said anion.
Abstract:
This application is directed to cycloalkanes containing the moiety --SO.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --X-- wherein X represents ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or alkyl and R' is alkyl and to the preparation of these compounds which find utility as silver halide complexing agents. This application is also concerned with cycloalkanes containing the moiety ##STR2## useful as intermediates in the preparation of the aforementioned compounds. Also included within the confines of this disclosure are the 2-thioether-substituted derivatives of certain of the above-identified cycloalkanes and with the synthesis of all of these compounds.
Abstract:
1,3-Disulfonylcycloalkanes substituted in the 2-position with at least one hydrogen atom are employed as silver halide complexing agents in both conventional and diffusion transfer photography. Preferred compounds are those possessing an S-containing moiety substituted in the 2-position and particularly those containing 6, 7 or 8 members in the cyclic ring and substituted in the 2-position with R.sup.2 -S--CH.sub.2m wherein R.sup.2 is a hydrocarbon radical and m is a whole number 0 to 5. The latter thioether-substituted 1,3-disulfonylcycloalkanes comprise the novel compounds of the present invention.
Abstract:
Novel compounds are disclosed which release a silver halide solvent in the presence of alkali, which compounds may be defined as quinone-or naphthoquinone-methide precursors containing the silver halide solvent moiety. These novel compounds are useful in photographic products and processes.