EP0731381B1 - Entwicklerlösung und Verfahren zum Entwickeln eines belichteten, photographischen Silberhalogenidmaterials - Google Patents

Entwicklerlösung und Verfahren zum Entwickeln eines belichteten, photographischen Silberhalogenidmaterials Download PDF

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EP0731381B1
EP0731381B1 EP96200134A EP96200134A EP0731381B1 EP 0731381 B1 EP0731381 B1 EP 0731381B1 EP 96200134 A EP96200134 A EP 96200134A EP 96200134 A EP96200134 A EP 96200134A EP 0731381 B1 EP0731381 B1 EP 0731381B1
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Ann c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. Verbeeck
Pascal c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. Meeus
Hieronymus c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. Andriessen
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00—Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
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    • G03C5/29—Development processes or agents therefor
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00—Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
    • G03C5/26—Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
    • G03C5/29—Development processes or agents therefor
    • G03C5/305—Additives other than developers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00—Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
    • G03C5/26—Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
    • G03C5/29—Development processes or agents therefor
    • G03C5/31—Regeneration; Replenishers
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00—Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
    • G03C5/26—Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
    • G03C5/38—Fixing; Developing-fixing; Hardening-fixing
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  • the present invention relates to a developing solution and a method for developing an exposed photographic silver halide material.
  • the formation of silver deposit can be attributed to the presence in conventional developers of silver halide complexing agents like, e.g., sulphite and thiocyanate ions.
  • the complex ions formed are effectively reduced to metallic silver nuclei. Growth of said nearly invisible fine nuclei leads to the formation of said silver deposit.
  • regularly cleaning of the automatic processing machines is required.
  • a film is introduced into the processor as first film of a whole series of films, its first contact with the first stained roller releases the deposit from the said roller or disturbs the deposited layer. As-a consequence after one rotation of the said roller the unevenly distributed dirt or stain comes into contact again with the transported film surface so that it may be deposited onto said surface.
  • the crystalline silver deposit may further cause damaging of the surface of the coated hydrophilic layers on the film and/or cause locally situated pressure phenomena, resulting in "artefacts", thereby seriously impeding the diagnostic value of the obtained image.
  • the silver halide photographic material shows processed images with a diagnostic value, like, e.g., in medical imaging or in non-destructive testing, said diagnostic value may be impaired.
  • sparingly soluble and non-reducible silver salts as, e.g., 5,5'-bis-1,2,4-triazoline-3-thiones or derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole-2-thiols as described, e.g. in BE-P 606,550 and GB-P 1,120,963, 2-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazoles described in US-P 3,212,892.
  • emulsion layer may contain auxiliary coating agents such as saponin, sodium lauryl sulphate, dodecylphenol polyethylene oxide ether and hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide.
  • EP-Specification 0 223 883 a method has been described which comprises the treating of a silver halide photographic material with an aqueous alkaline liquid in the presence of (i) a developing agent, (ii) a heterocyclic mercapto compound including an aliphatic group of at least 3 carbon atoms and (iii) a surface active agent, characterised in that said surface active agent is an anionic alkylphenoxy polyalkyleneoxy phosphate ester surfactant.
  • the alkaline developer further contains an organic compound having a negative reduction potential and a polyalkylene oxide or a derivative thereof, wherein said organic compound is represented by e.g. pyridinium salts, quinolinium salts or isoquinolinium salts and derivatives, all referred to as "pyridinium salt derivatives".
  • polyalkylene oxide compounds may be incorporated into the developer, they are preferably incorporated into the silver halide material forming negative images. Moreover nothing is suggested about the presence in the "pyridinium salt derivatives" of polyoxyethylene units as part of the structure or about the presence in the structure of the polyoxyethylene compounds of pyridinium rings.
  • EP-A 0 620 484 reduction of the so-called "pi-line" defect, especially for processed materials for non-destructive testing purposes, has been described.
  • Such materials should comprise at least one vinyl sulphone compound as a hardening agent and at least one polyoxyalkylene compound as a surfactant in at least one of its hydrophilic layers.
  • a processing method comprising a developing step wherein the developer comprises as a surfactant at least one anionic alkylphenoxy and/or alkoxy polyalkyleneoxy phosphate ester, sulphate ester, alkyl carboxylic, sulphonic or phosphonic acid and/or a salt thereof a remarkable improvement has been obtained.
  • a similar result has been obtained as disclosed in EP-A's 0 621 506 and 0 620 483.
  • a developer comprising hydroquinone in an amount of from 0 to 30 g per litre, an auxiliary developer, and as silver halide complexing agents alkali metal sulphite salts, preferably sodium salts, in an amount of less than 50 g per litre and more preferably less than 40 g per litre, characterised in that said developer further comprises
  • the compound according to formula (I), is more specifically preferred represented by the formula
  • anions are required to neutralise the total electrical charge of these N-heterocyclic aromatic onium compounds.
  • Preferred anions are sulphonate anions, like methylsulphonate and the like, toluyl sulphonate, carbamate, benzoate, glutamate, perchlorate, sulphate etc.
  • the said anions are p-toluyl sulphonate.
  • This formula corresponds with (iso)ascorbic acid, which is, together with 1-ascorbic acid, a preferred form of formula (I).
  • a and B each represent an oxygen atom; n-O and each of X and Y represent C(CH 3 ) 2 . This formula corresponds with tetramethylreductic acid.
  • the compound(s) according to formula (II) preferably is(are) present in the developer solution in an amount comprised between 1 g and 50 g per litre.
  • reducing precursor compounds have, e.g., been described in WO's 94/3834 and 94/16362, which are both incorporated herein by reference.
  • ascorbic acid is not merely used in the developer as an antioxidant as, e.g., described in WO 93/12463, in JP-A's 4428673 and 55149936, in GB 1,266,533 and in US-P's 3,865,591: 4,756,997 and 4,839,259 and in the iiterature as, e.g., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 60 (1938), p. 99 and p. 2084; 61 (1939), p. 442; 64 (1942), p. 1561, 65 (1943), p. 1489; 66 (1944), p. 700 and 104 (1982), p. 6273.
  • the developer liquid may contain any combination of hydroquinone as a developing agent and auxiliary developer known for use in the development of exposed photographic silver halide, but the absence of hydroquinone is not excluded.
  • auxiliary developing compounds may be utilized p-methylaminophenol, a 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidine-1-one, p-phenylenediamine derivatives and the like. Amounts of hydroquinone are lower than 30 g per litre and more preferably lower than 20 g per litre.
  • auxiliary developer Preferred amounts of auxiliary developer are present in a concentration range of up to 10 mmoles per litre of developer, said auxiliary developer being preferably a 1-phenyl-3-pyrazciidine-1-one compound, well-known as a "phenidone" compound.
  • the developer further comprises silver complexing compound(s) such as alkali metal sulphites, bisulphites, metasulphites or metabisulphites, but preferably it contains an alkali metal sulphite salt, and more preferably sodium sulphite, in an amount from 0 to 50, and more preferably in an amount from 0 to 40 g per litre of developer.
  • the developer solution can be alkalised with alkaline metal hydroxides, phosphates, borates, carbonates and the like.
  • the developer liquid or activator liquid may contain still other ingredients, e.g., metal complexing agents, an anti-fogging agent, e.g., alkali metal bromide, in amounts ranging from 0.01 to 0.4 moles per litre, a benzotriazole, a benzothiazole, a tetrazole, e.g., up to 0.06 g per liter of 1-phenyl-5-mercapto-tetrazole, solvents improving the dissolution of the developing agents, e.g., alcohols, polyethylene glycols and esters thereof and alkanolamines, surface active agents, development retarding or activating compounds, e.g., quaternary ammonium salts, and gelatin hardening agents, e.g., dialdehyde compounds such as glutardialdehyde.
  • polyethylene glycols having a low molecular weight in the range from 200 to 400 is preferred.
  • Values of the pH of the developer solution according to this invention are preferably in the range from 9.0 to 12.5, more preferably in the range of 9.5 to 12.0 and still more preferably from 9.5 to 11.0. Even at those relatively "lower” pH values, if compared with more frequently used alkaline pH values of 12.0 and more, the required sensitometry is still attained, which means that a developer having a composition according to this invention offers enough reactivity to get the required sensitivity for a material that is processed therein within a reasonable processing time.
  • the present invention thus includes a method for developing, by means of the developer according to this invention, any type of photographic silver halide emulsion layer material, e.g., a graphic art, micrographic and an X-ray recording material, after image-wise exposing the said material by means of suitable radiation sources, adapted to each application in particular, and immersing it into a developer according to this invention.
  • any type of photographic silver halide emulsion layer material e.g., a graphic art, micrographic and an X-ray recording material
  • the development process according to the present invention is advantageously applied in automatic processing equipment, preferably one containing conveyer rollers as described, e.g., in US-P 3,025,779 and 3,545,971, in a time between 5 and 45 seconds at a temperature between 25 and 40°C.
  • the concentration of the derivatives corresponding to formula (II) and the pH are maintained at a constant value by replenishment with unoxidised developing agent, thereby adding a concentrated alkali hydroxide solution under controlled constant redox potential as has been illustrated in EP-A 0 552 511.
  • This invention allows the use of low regeneration amounts of the developer, having a composition according to this invention: minimum regeneration amounts of developing solution from 50 to 250 ml/m 2 of photographic material are possible and even more preferred from 50 to 150 ml/m 2 .
  • Silver halide emulsions incorporated in at least one photosensitive layer in a suitable layer arrangement of the said materials which can be processed in a developer having a composition according to this invention are composed of silver bromide, silver bromoiodide, non-tabular silver chloride, non-tabular silver chloro-bromide, non-tabular silver chlorobromoiodide or a combination thereof.
  • silver halide emulsions incorporated in at least one photosensitive layer in a suitable layer arrangement of the said materials which can be processed in a developer according to this invention are composed of tabular silver bromide and/or tabular silver bromoiodide emulsions or a combination thereof or with crystals, the composition of which is cited hereinbefore.
  • Photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer(s) present in silver halide photographic materials used in the method according to this invention may be of any type or composition used in silver halide photography and may be present in whatever a layer arrangement used in the art of photography.
  • So black-and-white silver halide films intended to be used for contact exposures form an important class of photographic films. These so-called contact films are used for proper reproduction on one hand and for dry dot-etching on the other hand. In modern pre-press graphic arts these contact materials are designed to be useful for several minutes under roomlight conditions, meaning light containing substantially no UV-light.
  • Accurately reproducing the relative proportions of white and black areas of a dot or line image implicates high contrast and high image density.
  • Contact materials usually are processed in Rapid Access chemistry containing hydroquinone, but they give equal or better results, concerning contrast or image density, in Rapid Access chemistry containing ascorbic acid or ascorbic acid derivatives instead of hydroquinone.
  • the present invention is illustrated by the following example without, however, limiting it thereto.
  • Method A makes use of the GEVASET 437N automatic processor, trademarked product from Agfa-Gevaert, which has a tank volume of only 1 litre per tank.
  • the temperature and the processing velocity are made variable. As there is only one roller before entering and after leaving every bath, there is no danger to disturb the outlook of the film surface. Moreover the agitation of the developer is reduced to a negligable extent and the developer tank is followed by two fixation tanks and one rinsing tank, both having a content of 1 litre. At a velocity of 25 cm/min, the film is immersed into the developer tank for 46 seconds at a temperature of 30°C. The developer is not regenerated.
  • the silver deposit has the occasion to grow by agglomeration.
  • the filtration was carried out under vacuum suction with a Büchner filter apparatus with a filtration paper Rotband Nr 589-5, the weight of which was determined before the operation started. After filtration the filter was rinsed with about 1 1 of demineralised water, in order to remove the soluble salts of the developer. The filter paper was dried in an oven for 1 hour at 80°C, whereafter it was cooled for 90 minutes and weighed again. The difference in weight obtained gives an idea about the amount of silver deposit. After 4 weeks the procedure was repeated in order to detect the velocity of sedimentation. From the resulting filtrate a sample was taken to determine the amount of silver therein by means of A.A.S.. Experimental data are further given in Example 1.
  • STRUCTURIX D4 trademarked product from Agfa-Gevaert for industrial radiography (non-destructive testing)
  • This material is double-side coated and contains an amount of ca. 21 g of silver, expressed as the equivalent amount of silver nitrate per square metre.
  • the said material has been chosen in some experiments in order to reduce the amount of film to a minimum.
  • the following silver halide materials A and B were prepared in order to be coated identically to the STRUCTURIX D4 material as the normally present cubic crystals having 99 mole % of silver bromide and 1 mole % of iodide ions used therein.
  • This emulsion was prepared at a pH value of 5.0 and a constant pAg value of 7.35. Its grain size was 0.30 ⁇ m and its gesi (ratio of the amount, in grams, of gelatin to silver expressed as the equivalent amount of silver nitrate) was 0.5.
  • the said emulsion was optimally sulphur and gold sensitised.
  • the graphic material SPR712p (trademarked product from Agfa-Gevaert, having an emulsion rich in chloride: 83.6 mole % of chloride, 16 mole % of bromide and 0.4 mole % of iodide) was chosen.
  • This material is called material C.
  • This material is single-side coated and contains an amount of ca. 7.5 g of silver, expressed as the equivalent amount of silver nitrate per square metre.
  • the washing procedure was performed in a discontinous way, adding 3 1 of demineralised water, containing up to 8 mmole of sodium chloride pro liter, until pAg was reaching a value of about 7.3.
  • the emulsion was peptised and was chemically ripened to an optimalfog-sensitivity relationship at 52°C, pAg having a value of about 6.95.
  • Chemical ripening agents besides gold (in an amount of 0.019 mmole) and sulphur (tetramethyl thiodithiocarboxylic acid diamide in an amount of 0.061 mmole), were toluene thiosulphonic acid and iodide ions, both being predigestion agents in amounts of 0.02 and 8.6 mmoles respectively.
  • a photographic material was prepared having on a subbed polyester base a gelatinous silver halide emulsion of which the silver halide consists for 99.7 % of silver chloride having an average grain size of 0.55 ⁇ m the preparation of which has been described above. Before coating said emulsion was spectrally sensitised with two spectral sensitisers, corresponding to the following formulae (see compound III and compound IV):
  • spectral sensitisers were added consecutively in an amount of 0.1 mmole and 0.3 mmole per mole of silver nitrate respectively.
  • the emulsion was further stabilised with 0.22 mmole of compound (V) and 0.68 mmole of compound (VI) per mole of silver nitrate.
  • a coated amount of silver expressed as the equivalent amount of silver nitrate of 3.8 g per square metre and a gelatin to silver chloride (expressed in equivalent amount of silver nitrate) ratio of 0.35 was provided with a gelatin covering layer (anti-stress layer) of 1.30 g of gelatin per m2.
  • the developer DEV3, according to this invention makes the amount of silver deposit decrease about 40 % for materials comprising emulsion crystals rich in AgCl and about 25 % for materials comprising emulsion crystals rich in AgBr in comparison with the developer DEV2.
  • the sensitometric results are matching those obtained with the reference developer DEV1 as has been illustrated in Table 2.
  • film material A has in its composition 99 mole % of AgBr; film material B 99.7 mole % of AgCl as set forth hereinbefore.
  • GRD1 represents the "toe” gradation
  • GRD2 represents the rectilineal gradation

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  1. Eine fotografische Entwicklerlösung, die Hydrochinon in einer Menge zwischen 0 und 30 g pro Liter, eine Hilfsentwicklersubstanz und als Silberhalogenid-Komplexbildner Alkalimetallsulfitsalze in einer Menge von 0 bis 50 g pro Liter enthält, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Entwickler ferner
    in einer Menge zwischen 0,1 und 5 g pro Liter eine Verbindung nach Formel (I), begleitet von ladungsausgleichenden Anionen :
    Figure 00250001
    in der p eine Zahl von 3 bis 10 und p' eine Zahl von 1 bis 4 bedeutet,
    und
    wenigstens 1 g einer Verbindung nach Formel (II), eines Vorläufers derselben, eines Derivats derselben und/oder eines Metallsalzes dieser Verbindung nach der nachstehenden Formel (II) enthält :
    Figure 00250002
    in der bedeuten :
    A, B und D jeweils unabhängig voneinander ein Sauerstoffatom oder NR1,
    X ein Sauerstoffatom, ein Schwefelatom, NR2, CR3R4, C=O, C=NR5 oder C=S,
    Y ein Sauerstoffatom, ein Schwefelatom, NR'2, CR'3R'4, C=O, C=NR'5 oder C=S,
    Z ein Sauerstoffatom, ein Schwefelatom, NR"2, CR"3R"4, C=O, C=NR"5 oder C=S,
    n 0, 1 oder 2,
    R1 bis R5, R'1 bis R'5 und R"1 bis R"5 jeweils unabhängig voneinander ein Wasserstoffatom, eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Alkylgruppe, eine Aralkylgruppe, eine Hydroxyalkylgruppe, eine Carboxyalkylgruppe, eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Alkenylgruppe, eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Alkynylgruppe, eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Cycloalkylgruppe, eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Cycloalkenylgruppe, eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Arylgruppe oder eine substituierte oder nicht-substituierte Heterocyclylgruppe,
    und in der
    R3 und R4, R'3 und R'4 und R"3 und R"4 weiterhin einen Ring bilden können, und
    falls X=CR3R4 und Y=CR'3R'4, R3 und R'3 und/oder R4 und R'4 einen Ring bilden können, und falls Y=CR'3R'4 und Z=CR"3R"4, wobei n = 1 oder 2, R'3 und R"3 und/oder R'4 und R"4 einen Ring bilden können.
  2. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß p etwa 4 und p' etwa 1 bedeutet.
  3. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß wenigstens eine Verbindung nach Formel (I) in einer Menge zwischen 0,5 und 2,5 g pro Liter enthalten ist.
  4. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in Formel (II) A, B und X jeweils ein Sauerstoffatom bedeuten, n = 0, Y = CH-(CHOH)m-CH2-R6, wobei m = 1, 2, 3 oder 4, und R6 OH bei m = 1 und H oder OH bei m = 2, 3 oder 4 bedeutet.
  5. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in Formel (II) A und B jeweils ein Sauerstoffatom bedeuten, n = 0 und X und Y jeweils C(CH3)2 bedeuten.
  6. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verbindung nach Formel (II) in einer Menge zwischen 1 g und 50 g pro Liter enthalten ist.
  7. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Lösung einen pH-Wert zwischen 9,0 und 12,5 aufweist.
  8. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Lösung einen pH-Wert zwischen 9,5 und 11,0 aufweist.
  9. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Alkalimetallsulfitsalze in einer Menge von weniger als 40 g pro Liter enthalten sind.
  10. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Menge Hydrochinon weniger als 20 g pro Liter beträgt.
  11. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß als Hilfsentwicklersubstanz wenigstens eine 1-Phenyl-3-pyrazolidine-1-on-Entwicklersubstanz in einer Konzentration bis zu 10 Mmol pro Liter benutzt wird.
  12. Fotografische Entwicklerlösung nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 1 bis 11, die weiterhin ein Alkalimetallbromidsalz in einer Konzentration zwischen 0,01 und 0,4 Mol pro Liter enthält.
  13. Verfahren zur Entwicklung eines bildmäßig belichteten fotografischen Materials, wobei das Material in einer fotografischen, nach irgendwelcher der Ansprüche 1 bis 12 definierten Entwicklerlösung eingetaucht wird.
  14. Verfahren nach Anspruch 13, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Konzentration der Verbindung nach Formel (I) und der pH-Wert durch Nachfüllung mit nichtoxidiertem Entwickler auf einem konstanten Wert gehalten werden, wobei eine konzentrierte Alkalihydroxidlösung unter kontrolliertem konstantem Redoxpotential zugesetzt wird.
  15. Verfahren nach Anspruch 13, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Nachfüllung in einer Menge zwischen 50 und 250 ml/m2 fotografischen Materials erfolgt.
  16. Verfahren nach Anspruch 13, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Nachfüllung in einer Menge zwischen 50 und 150 ml/m2 fotografischen Materials erfolgt.
  17. Verfahren nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 13 bis 16, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Entwicklung in einem automatischen Entwicklungsgerät mit einer Entwicklungszeit zwischen 5 und 45 s bei einer Temperatur zwischen 25 und 40°C erfolgt.
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