Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

Details Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

1999-07-16

2001-01-16

Schilling, Richard L. (Department: 1752)

Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th

Radiation sensitive product

Identified backing or protective layer containing

C430S539000, C430S545000, C430S546000, C430S557000, C430S622000, C430S638000, C430S639000, C430S640000, C430S963000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06174660

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and a processing method thereof, specifically to the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material with excellent scratch resistance of unexposed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, excellent rapid hardening capability, minimal sharpness loss of printed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material over passage of time, excellent scratch resistance when an exposed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is immersed in a processing solution and excellent color dye forming capability of a yellow coupler.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
With increased popularity of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material (hereinafter referred to as a photographic light-sensitive material or simply a light-sensitive material), there have been a strong demand for improved stability of unexposed light-sensitive material stored over a long period of time, improved handling of said light-sensitive material and improved productivity of said light-sensitive material.
In the case of photographic color paper, it is used mainly in photographic laboratories and photographic shops, and is preferably refrigerated prior to use after manufacture so as to keep its photographic properties. However, it is sometimes actually left for a long time without refrigeration in transporting it and also in the photographic laboratoies and the photographic shops where it is employed. Further, in certain regions, the paper is often left for a long time under conditions of high temperature and/or high humidity. When an unexposed photographic color paper is left for a long time as mentioned above, fogging occasionally results on the print, therefore improvement to minimize said fogging has been strongly desired.
When the unexposed photographic color paper is transferred at high speed in a printer, it is occasionally subjected to excessive scratch. In order to improve the scratch resistance, various methods have been proposed, however these methods have been insufficient improvement and still more improved methods have been sought.
In manufacturing these photographic materials, in order to obtain desirable photographic layer properties, these photographic materials are occasionally stored in the manufacturing plant for a few days prior to transportation of them after being coated. However, if the photographic material is capable of being hardened rapidly, it can be immediately transported just after coating resulting in enhancement of its productivity.
Further, an image obtained by processing the photographic material is often stored under various conditions. Specifically, in the case of photographic color paper, the obtained image is required to remain unchanged for a long time. However, since the image of the photographic color paper is often left under conditions of high temperature and/or high humidity, the image resolution is occasionally lowered, and improvement of the current image resolution has been desired.
On the other hand, in recent years, rapid development processing of the photographic light-sensitive material has become more and more popular. In this case, specifically photographic color paper is transferred at high speed when processed in a processing solution, occasionally resulting in scratch of the photographic color paper. Therefore, improvement of the scratch resistance of the paper has been strongly sought. Further, in point of rapid process, a light-sensitive material with more excellent dye forming efficiency and a processing method of said light-sensitive material have been also strongly sought.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material with excellent fog resistance when an unexposed photographic light-sensitive material is stored, excellent scratch resistance of the unexposed photographic light-sensitive material, excellent rapid hardening capability, less sharpness loss when a printed photographic light-sensitive material is stored over passage of time, excellent scratch resistance when an exposed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is immersed in a processing solution, and excellent color forming capability of a yellow coupler.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The above-mentioned object of the present invention are attained by the following constitution.
1. A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and at least a nonlight-sensitive layer,
wherein said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material contains a compound represented by the following Formula (1) and said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material further contains a vinylsulfone group containing hardener;
HOCH
2
(CHOH)
m
CH
2
OH  Formula (1)
wherein m represents an integer of 0 to 6.
2. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 1,
wherein said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion consists of an average silver chloride content ratio of not less than 95 mol %.
3. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 2,
wherein said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a nonlight-sensitive layer, coated farthest from said support, containing a betaine type surfactant.
4. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 2,
wherein said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a nonlight-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer coated in a coated gelatin amount of 0.01 to 1.0 g/m
2
between a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer nearest to said support and said support.
5. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 2,
wherein surface of said support is subjected to an energy treatment to produce an reactive group capable of being hardened by a hardener.
6. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 2,
wherein said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least a yellow coupler represented by the following Formula [Y-1],
wherein R
1
represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; R
2
represents a nondiffisuble aliphatic or a nondiffusible aromatic group; R
3
represents a hydrogen atom or a hologen atom; while X represents a five or six membered nitrogen containing heterocyclic group which is released when said yellow coupler couples with an oxidized color developer.
7. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 3,
wherein said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material contains at least a fluorine containing surfactant.
8. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 4,
wherein a coated gelatin amount of said nonlight-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer coated between said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer nearest to said support and said support is between 0.03 to 0.8 g/m
2
.
9. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 1,
wherein said vinylsulfone group containing hardener is represented by the following Formula [H-1],
wherein R
1
, R
4
and R
7
each represent an alkylene group and an arylene group, R
2
, R
3
, R
5
, R
6
, R
8
and R
9
each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxyl group or a vinylsulfone group. J
1
and J
2
each represent —O—, —S—, —(C═O)—, CH(OH)—, —NHCO— or —CONH—, and m1 and m2 each represent 0 or 1.
10. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 1,
wherein additional amount of said compound represented by the Formula (1) is not more than 1 g/m
2
.
11. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of item 1,
wherein at least one of said silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer and said nonlight-sensitive layer contains gelatin and a coated amount of said gelatin is not more than 6.5 g/m in total.
12. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive ma

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