JPH0785167B2 - Processing method of silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material - Google Patents

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TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, more specifically, graininess is improved,
The present invention also relates to a method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of preventing film peeling of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and scratches on the emulsion surface during processing.

In general, a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has three kinds of photographic silver halide emulsion layers, which are selectively spectrally sensitized to have sensitivity to blue light, green light and red light, coated on a support. ing. For example, in a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for a color negative, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer are generally coated in this order from the exposed side, A bleachable yellow filter layer is provided between the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer to absorb blue light transmitted through the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. . Further, each emulsion layer is provided with another intermediate layer for various special purposes and a protective layer as the outermost layer. It is also known that each of these light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers is provided in an arrangement different from that described above. Further, as each silver halide emulsion layer, light-sensitivity to each color light in substantially the same wavelength range is obtained. It is also known to use a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having two or more layers having different properties and different sensitivities. In these silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials, the exposed silver halide grains are developed by using, for example, an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent as a color developing agent, and the generated color developing agent is oxidized. The reaction of the product with the dye-forming coupler forms a dye image. In this method, usually, in order to form a dye image of cyan, magenta and yellow, a phenol or naphthol type cyan coupler, a 5-pyrazolone type, a pyrazolinobenzimidazole type, a pyrazolotriazole type, an indazolone type or a cyano type, respectively. Acetyl magenta couplers and acylacetamide yellow couplers are used. These dye-forming couplers are contained in the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or in the developing solution. INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is suitable as a method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material in which a coupler is pre-diffused and contained in a silver halide emulsion layer.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In recent years, it has been known to reduce the image size of a film in order to miniaturize a camera and enhance portability, but it is well known that the print image deteriorates if this is done. That is, when the screen size of the color photographic light-sensitive material becomes small, the enlargement ratio becomes large to make a print of the same size, so that the graininess and sharpness of the printed image are inferior. Therefore, in order to obtain a good print even if the camera is downsized, the graininess of the film,
It is necessary to improve the resolution and sharpness.

Among these, as a technique for improving the graininess, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 55-6
Method using fast-reacting coupler described in 2454, THJa
mes “The Theory of the Photograpic Process” 4 th E
d. A method of increasing the number of silver halide grains as described in P620 to 621, a diffusion in which a dye is moderately bleeded by reacting with an oxidation product of a color developing agent described in British Patent 2,080,640A. Method using a non-diffusible coupler for forming a functional dye, the silver iodide content described in JP-A-60-128443 is 8
A method of adjusting the amount to be more than mol%, and others, JP-A-59-191036,
As described in JP-A-60-3628, JP-A-60-128440, etc., heretofore, almost only an improved technique using a light-sensitive material has been known.

On the other hand, a core-shell emulsion has been recently developed as a silver halide emulsion which has high sensitivity, is made into fine particles, and silver is effectively used to meet the demand for resource protection. One of them is a monodisperse core-shell emulsion in which the preceding silver halide emulsion is used as a crystal nucleus, and the subsequent precipitations are successively laminated on this, and the composition or progress environment of each precipitation is intentionally controlled.
It has been found that these core-shell emulsions, including the core-shell type high-speed emulsions in which the core contains silver iodide, are extremely preferable for high speed and other photographic performances.

However, as a result of the investigation by the present inventors, the graininess of the color light-sensitive material containing the core-shell silver halide grains containing 3.0 mol% or more of silver iodide is not sufficient. This is a technical issue to be greatly improved.

Similarly, as an emulsion having high sensitivity and improving conventional defects, JP-A Nos. 58-113930, 58-113934 and 58-12792 have been used.
Techniques using tabular silver halide grains as described in No. 1 and No. 58-108532 have been developed.

With this tabular grain technology, even if the number of photons captured by the silver halide grains increases, the amount of silver used does not increase and the image quality does not deteriorate. However, when these tabular grains are used, the graininess of the color light-sensitive material containing the tabular silver halide grains containing silver iodide in an amount of 3.0 mol% or more is not sufficient. Is a performance to be improved. Particularly, the defect of graininess in an extremely small-format silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material such as a so-called disc film is a bottleneck for its widespread use.

Techniques for improving the graininess are disclosed in JP-A-49-15495 and JP-A-5353.
No. 7230, No. 57-155539, etc., it is carried out by devising the layer structure of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, and the graininess is improved by the processing method of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material. The technology is unknown.

Therefore, the present inventor has diligently studied a processing method for improving the graininess of a high-sensitivity fine particle type high-sensitivity silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of satisfying both silver resource protection and high sensitivity, and 3.0 mol% of silver iodide Core-shell silver halide grains containing the above and / or tabular silver halide grains containing 3.0 mol% or more of silver iodide, and having a solubility product with silver ions of 1 × 10
^-9 Contains an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent after imagewise exposure of a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a compound that releases a silver salt-forming inhibitor or inhibitor precursor at the time of development processing Using color development supply to
It has been found that this can be achieved by a technique of color development processing such that the value of [developed silver amount in maximum density part] / [total silver amount] is 0.5 or less in seconds or less.

The present inventor, as a result of further research on the above technology,
Although the graininess is improved, it has been found that there is a disadvantage or drawback that the film peeling of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and the photographic constituent layers such as emulsion layers are easily scratched.
That is, after the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is developed,
Although it is dried in the drying step or by natural drying, it has been found that this drying causes the photographic constituent layers to peel off from the support of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material. Further, it has been found that the photographic constituent layers are easily scratched by rapid automatic conveyance (conveyance using rolls, endless belts, etc.) by a natural developing machine or a printing machine (printer).

Therefore, it is a technical object of the present invention to prevent film peeling and scratching of a photographic constituent layer while maintaining the graininess improving effect of the above technique.

The processing method of the present invention which solves the above technical problems comprises a core-shell silver halide grain containing 3.0 mol% or more of silver iodide (hereinafter referred to as core-shell silver halide grain of the present invention) and / or 3.0 mol of silver iodide. % Tabular silver halide grains (hereinafter referred to as tabular silver halide grains of the present invention)
And a compound which releases an inhibitor or an inhibitor precursor which forms a silver salt having a solubility product with silver ion of 1 × 10 ⁻⁹ or less during development processing (hereinafter referred to as an inhibitor-releasing compound of the present invention). After imagewise exposing the contained silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, using a color developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent, 120 seconds or less and [amount of developed silver in the maximum density part] / Color development processing is performed so that the value of [total silver amount] is 0.5 or less, and the processing solution immersion time from the color development to the processing with the final processing solution is 540 seconds or less.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention is that the inhibitor releasing compound of the present invention is a DIR compound, and the color development processing temperature is 43 ° C.
As described above, more preferably at 48 ° C. or higher, the core-shell emulsion used in the present invention comprises a core consisting essentially of silver halide containing silver iodide, silver bromide, silver chloride, silver chlorobromide or iodo. Including silver halide grains consisting of a shell substantially consisting of silver bromide or a mixture thereof and having a thickness of 0.01 to 0.5 μm, and the processing step following color development is processing with an aqueous solution having a specific gravity of 1.1 or more. That is, the processing step following color development is processing with a bleach-fixing solution, there is substantially no water washing processing step, and there is processing with a water washing alternative stabilizing solution.

As a result of studying a processing method for solving the above technical problems, we have found that the core-shell silver halide grains of the present invention and / or
Alternatively, in the method of processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing tabular silver halide grains of the present invention, the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is allowed to contain an inhibitor-releasing compound, and the color development processing time is 120 The graininess of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material can be obtained by color development processing such that the value of [developed silver amount in maximum density part] / [total silver amount] is 0.5 or less, and more preferably 0.1 to 0.3 for less than 2 seconds. It was found that it is possible to improve film quality and prevent film peeling and scratching of photographic constituent layers by treating with a processing solution immersion time of 540 seconds or less from color development to processing with the final processing solution. It was It is particularly advantageous for small-format color light-sensitive materials such as disk films.

In the present specification, the amount of developed silver in the maximum density part means a 16 CMS (Candela meter) according to the method described on page 337 of the basics of photographic engineering (silver salt photography edition, Japanese photography scholarship edition).
It is the amount of developed silver when color development is performed by giving an exposure amount of second).

In addition, Cd: luminous intensity of light bulb (candela) S: exposure time (sec) T: transmittance of filter M: distance (m) The light-sensitive emulsion layer of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material processed according to the present invention has at least one of The layer may contain the core-shell silver halide grains of the present invention and / or the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention.

Color development processing is performed in 120 seconds or less, preferably 4
3 ℃ or more, 120 seconds or less, more preferably 48 ℃ or more, 90 seconds or less, most preferably 55 ℃ or more, 60 seconds or less is a treatment, the effect of improving the granularity when performing a treatment over 120 seconds I can't see it. In particular, processing time is more important than temperature.

In the present specification, "processing with a processing solution immersion time of 540 seconds or less from color development to processing with the final processing solution" means
Processing The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is dipped in color development and then processed one after another. The time from the final processing using a processing solution (including washing water or rinse solution) is less than 540 seconds. In the case of the development processing by a so-called automatic developing machine, it usually means the time from the color development to the drying step. The final treatment using the treatment liquid may be any of washing with water, stable replacement with washing with water, final stabilization, and the like.

The light-sensitive material used in the processing of the present invention contains core-shell silver halide grains and / or tabular silver halide grains in at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer. The core-shell silver halide grains used are not particularly limited, but in the case of a high speed color negative photographic material, the following are particularly preferably used.

That is, the light-sensitive material to which the present invention is advantageously applied is silver iodide 3.
It is a light-sensitive material having an emulsion layer containing core-shell type grains containing 0 mol% or more and having a halogen composition consisting essentially of silver iodobromide.

The core-shell emulsion preferably used in the present invention is described in detail, for example, in JP-A No. 57-154232, and preferred core-shell silver halide grains have a silver halide composition of 0.1 to 40 mol% silver iodide. , More preferably 5 to 40 mol%, most preferably 8 to 35 mol%, and the shell is composed of silver bromide, silver chloride, silver iodobromide or silver chlorobromide or a mixture thereof. Is.

Particularly preferably, the shell is a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide having a silver bromide content of 95 mol% or more as a main component.
In the present invention, the monodisperse silver halide grains are used as the core, and the shell thickness is set to 0.01 to 2.0 µm, which brings about a preferable effect.

The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material preferably used in the processing of the present invention contains silver iodide as a whole of 3.0 mol% or more,
It is preferably composed of 3 to 40 mol%, more preferably 4 to 15 mol%, still more preferably 5 to 10 mol%, and especially silver halide grains containing silver iodide as a core. Silver iodide is used by hiding the core of silver halide grains consisting of silver bromide, silver chloride, silver chlorobromide or silver iodobromide or a mixture thereof. The point is to make the most of the ability of the silver halide grain containing silver to improve the sensitivity, and to hide the disadvantageous nature of the grain. More specifically, a silver halide containing silver iodide is used as a core, and the thickness range necessary for effectively exerting only the desirable features of this core and concealing undesirable behavior is strictly regulated. To give the shell to the core. The method of coating with a shell having a necessary and minimum absolute thickness in order to effectively exhibit the properties possessed by the core has a different purpose, and therefore the materials of the core and the shell are changed so that, for example, the storability is improved or increased. It is extremely advantageous in that it can be spread and used for the purpose of improving the dye-sensitizing rate.

The silver iodide content in the base silver halide grain (core) is preferably 0.1 to 20 mol% in the range from a solid solution to a mixed crystal, more preferably 0.5 to 10 mol%. . The distribution of the contained silver iodide in the core may be uneven distribution or uniform distribution, but it is preferable that the low silver iodide is unevenly distributed in the central portion.

The silver halide emulsion having the core-shell silver halide grains of the present invention can be produced by coating the shell with the silver halide grains contained in the monodisperse emulsion as the core. When the shell is silver iodobromide, the ratio of silver iodide to silver bromide is preferably 10 mol% or less.

To make the core monodisperse silver halide grains, grains having a desired size can be obtained by the double jet method while keeping pAg constant. The method described in JP-A-54-48521 can be applied to the production of highly monodisperse silver halide emulsion. In a preferred embodiment of the method, a method of adding potassium iodobromide-gelatin aqueous solution and ammonium ammonium nitrate aqueous solution into a gelatin aqueous solution containing silver halide seed grains while changing the addition rate as a function of time is used. It is to manufacture.
At this time, a highly monodisperse silver halide emulsion can be obtained by appropriately selecting the time function of addition rate, pH, pAg, temperature and the like.

Since the particle size distribution of a monodisperse emulsion is almost a normal distribution, the standard deviation can be easily obtained. The relational expression If the width (%) of the distribution is defined by, the width of the distribution that can withstand the significant regulation of the absolute thickness of the coating is preferably 20% or less, and more preferably 10% or less. .

Next, the thickness of the shell that coats the core is a thickness that does not cover the desirable properties of the core, and conversely, a thickness that hides the undesired properties of the core. That is, the thickness is preferably a narrow range limited by such upper and lower limits. Such a shell can be formed by depositing a soluble halogen compound solution and a soluble silver solution on a monodisperse core by the double jet method.

On the other hand, if the thickness of the shell is too thin, the base material containing silver iodide in the core is barely exposed, and the effect of coating the shell on the surface, that is, the chemical sensitizing effect, performance such as rapid development and fixing property is lost. Be seen. The thickness limit is preferably 0.01 μm.

Furthermore, as confirmed by a highly monodisperse core having a distribution width of 10% or less, a preferable shell thickness is 0.01 to 0.4 μm,
The most preferable thickness is 0.01 to 0.2 μm.

The fact that the developed silver filaments are sufficiently formed to improve the optical density, the sensitizing effect is produced by utilizing the core's sensitizing property, and the rapid developing property and the fixing property are produced are the highly monodisperse cores. Is due to a synergistic effect between the shell whose thickness is regulated as described above and the silver halide composition of the core and the shell. Therefore, if the thickness regulation of the shell can be satisfied, the silver halide constituting the shell Can be silver iodobromide, silver bromide, silver chloride, silver chlorobromide, or a mixture thereof. Among them, silver bromide, silver iodobromide, or a mixture thereof is preferable from the viewpoint of compatibility with the core, performance stability, storage stability and the like.

The light-sensitive material of the present invention includes the light-sensitive materials described below. That is, in at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, an internal nucleus consisting essentially of silver bromide and / or silver iodobromide, and a silver bromide layer provided outside of this internal nucleus and substantially consisting of silver bromide and And / or a negative type silver halide grain having a plurality of outer shells of silver iodobromide, and the iodine content of the outermost shell of the silver halide grain is 10 mol% or less, An iodine-rich shell (hereinafter referred to as a high iodine shell) having an iodine content higher than that of the shell by 6 mol% or more is provided inside the outermost shell, and the outermost shell and the high iodine shell are separated from each other. An intermediate shell having an iodine content intermediate between these shells is provided between them, and the iodine content of the intermediate shell is 3 mol% or more higher than that of the outermost shell, and the iodine content of the high iodine shell is The photosensitive material is 3 mol% or more higher than the intermediate shell.

The above-mentioned "consisting essentially of" means that it may contain a silver halide other than silver iodobromide, for example, silver chloride. Specifically, in the case of silver chloride, the ratio is 1 mol. % Or less.

The characteristic points of this photosensitive material are the following (1) to (4).

(1) An emulsion containing core / shell type silver halide grains having a high iodine shell inside is used.

(2) An intermediate shell having an intermediate iodine content is provided between the high iodine shell and the surface low iodine shell (outermost shell layer).

(3) The iodine content of the high iodine shell is 6 to 40 mol%, which is higher than the outermost shell layer by 6 mol% or more.

(4) The difference in iodine content between the middle shell and the outermost shell or the high iodine shell is 3 mol% or more, respectively.

The three-layer core-shell emulsion described in JP-A-60-35726 can also be used in the present invention. In addition, JP-A-59-177535
The core-shell emulsions described in Nos. 60-86659 and 60-138538 can also be used in the present invention.

The photosensitive silver halide emulsion used in the present invention may be doped with various metal salts or metal complex salts at the time of silver halide precipitation formation of the core and shell, at the time of grain growth or after the growth is completed. For example, metal salts or complex salts of gold, platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, bismuth, cadmium, copper and the like and combinations thereof can be applied.

Further, excess halogen compounds generated during the preparation of the emulsion of the present invention or salts and compounds such as nitrates, ammonium and the like, which are by-produced or become unnecessary, may be removed. The removal method is a Nudel water washing method that is commonly used in general emulsions.
A dialysis method or a coagulation precipitation method can be appropriately used.

Further, the emulsion of the present invention can be subjected to various chemical sensitization methods which are applied to general emulsions. That is, active gelatin; water-soluble gold salt, water-soluble platinum salt, water-soluble palladium salt, water-soluble rhodium salt, water-soluble iridium salt, and other precious metal sensitizers; sulfur sensitizers; selenium sensitizers; polyamines, chlorides Compound sensitization can be performed alone or in combination with a chemical sensitizer such as a reduction sensitizer such as 1-tin. Further, this silver halide can be optically sensitized to a desired wavelength range. The optical sensitizing method of the emulsion of the present invention is not particularly limited, and for example, an optical sensitizer such as a cyan dye such as a zeromethine dye, a monomethine dye, a trimethine dye or a merocyanine dye is used alone or in combination (for example, supersensitization). It can be optically sensitized. U.S. Pat.
545, 2,912,329, 3,397,060, 3,615,635
No. 3,628,964, British Patents 1,195,302, 1,242,58
No. 8, No. 1,293,862, West German Patent (OLS) No. 2,030,326, No.
No. 2,121,780, Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 43-4936, and No. 44-14030. The selection can be arbitrarily determined depending on the wavelength region to be sensitized, sensitivity, etc., according to the purpose and application of the light-sensitive material.

The silver halide emulsion used in the present invention is a silver halide emulsion in which the core grains are monodisperse silver halide grains in forming the silver halide grains contained therein. By coating the above, it is possible to obtain a monodisperse silver halide emulsion having a shell with a substantially uniform thickness. Alternatively, two or more kinds of monodisperse emulsions having different average grain sizes may be blended at any time after grain formation so as to be compounded so as to obtain a predetermined gradation and used.

The silver halide emulsion used in the present invention has a wide distribution.
An emulsion containing the silver halide grains of the present invention with respect to all the silver halide grains contained in the emulsion in a proportion equal to or greater than that of the emulsion obtained by coating the shell with a monodisperse core of 20% or less. Is desirable. However, in addition to the above, silver halide grains other than those of the present invention may be contained within a range that does not impair the effects of the present invention. The silver halide other than the present invention may be a core-shell type other than the present invention, or may be one other than the core-shell type, and may be monodisperse or polydisperse. In the silver halide emulsion used in the present invention, the silver halide grains contained in the emulsion are at least 65% by weight.
Are preferably core-shell silver halide grains of the present invention, and almost all of them are preferably core-shell silver halide grains of the present invention.

The present invention includes the case where the silver halide emulsion of at least one light-sensitive layer is an emulsion containing the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention. That is, in the emulsion of the present invention used in the silver halide emulsion layer of the present invention, the silver halide grains are the core-shell silver halide grains of the present invention, and the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention. (The tabular silver halide grains of the present invention may be of the core-shell type or of any other type.), A mixture with the above, and the like. However, it is included in the present invention.

The tabular silver halide grains of the present invention will be described below.

The tabular silver halide grains of the present invention preferably have a grain size of 5 times or more the grain thickness. The tabular silver halide grains can be synthesized by a general synthesis method described in JP-A Nos. 58-113930, 58-113934, 58-127921 and 58-108532. In the present invention, the particle size is 5 times or more of the particle thickness from the viewpoint of effects on color stain and image quality,
It is preferable to use 5 to 100 times, particularly preferably 7 to 30 times. Further, the particle size is preferably 0.3 μm or more, and the particle size of 0.5 to 6 μm is particularly preferably used. When these tabular silver halide grains are contained in at least 50% by weight in at least one layer of silver halide emulsion, the effect of the present invention is more preferably exhibited, and almost all of them are the tabular silver halide grains described above. In this case, particularly preferable effects are exhibited.

It is particularly useful when the tabular silver halide grain of the present invention is a core-shell grain. In the case of the core-shell particles, it is preferable that the requirements described for the core-shell are also satisfied.

In general, tabular silver halide grains are tabular having two parallel planes, so that the "thickness" in the present invention is represented by the distance between two parallel planes constituting the tabular silver halide grain. .

The halogen composition of the tabular silver halide grains is preferably silver bromide and silver iodobromide, and particularly preferably silver iodobromide having a silver iodide content of 3 to 10 mol%.

Next, the method for producing the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention will be described.

The tabular silver halide grains can be produced by appropriately combining methods known in the art.

For example, in an atmosphere with a relatively high pAg value of pBr 1.3 or less, tabular silver halide grains form a seed crystal in which 40% or more by weight exists, and silver and a halogen solution are simultaneously treated while maintaining a similar pBr value. It is obtained by growing seed crystals while adding.

In this grain growth process, it is desirable to add a silver and halogen solution so that new crystal nuclei are not generated.

The size of tabular silver halide grains can be adjusted by controlling the temperature, selecting the type and amount of solvent, and controlling the addition rate of silver salt and halide used during grain growth.

During the production of the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention, a silver halide solvent is optionally used to control the grain size, grain shape (diameter / thickness ratio, etc.), grain size distribution, grain growth rate. You can control. The amount of the silver halide solvent used is preferably 1 × 10 ^{−3 to} 1.0% by weight of the reaction solution, and particularly preferably 1 × 10 ⁻² to 1 × 10 ⁻¹ % by weight.

For example, the growth rate can be increased by monodispersing the silver halide grain size distribution with an increase in the amount of silver halide solvent used. On the other hand, there is also a tendency that the thickness of silver halide grains increases with the amount of silver halide solvent used.

Examples of the silver halide solvent used include ammonia, thioethers and thioureas. Regarding thioethers, U.S. Patent Nos. 3,271,157 and 3,790,387
Issue No. 3,574,628, etc. can be referred to.

When the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention are produced, the addition rate, the addition amount, and the addition concentration of the silver salt solution (for example, AgNO ₃ aqueous solution) and the halide solution (for example, KBr aqueous solution), which are added to accelerate the grain growth, are set. A method of increasing the temperature is preferably used.

Regarding these methods, for example, British Patent 1,335,925,
U.S. Patents 3,672,900, 3,650,757, 4,242,445
Reference can be made to the descriptions of JP-A Nos. 55-142329 and 55-158124.

The tabular silver halide grain of the present invention can be chemically sensitized if necessary. Regarding the chemical sensitization method, the description of the sensitization method described for the core shell can be referred to, but from the viewpoint of silver saving, the tabular silver halide grain of the present invention is gold sensitized or sulfur sensitized, or these Combined use is preferred.

In the layer containing the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention,
It is preferable that the tabular silver halide grains are present in an amount of 40% or more, and particularly 60% or more, by weight based on all the silver halide grains in the layer.

Thickness of layer containing tabular silver halide grains is 0.5 μm
˜5.0 μm, particularly preferably 1.0 μm to 3.0 μm.

Also, the coating amount of tabular silver halide grains (for one side)
Preferably it is ^{0.5g / m 2 ~6g / m 2} , in particular ^{1g / m 2 ~4g / m 2} .

Other constitutions of the layer containing the tabular silver halide grains of the present invention, for example, binder, curing agent, antifoggant, stabilizer of silver halide, surfactant, spectral sensitizing dye, dye, ultraviolet absorber There are no particular restrictions on, etc., for example,
Reference can be made to the description in Research Disclosure 176, 22-28 (December 1978).

Next, the constitution of the silver halide emulsion layer (hereinafter referred to as the upper silver halide emulsion layer) existing outside (on the surface side) of the layer containing tabular silver halide grains of the present invention will be described.

The silver halide grains used in the upper silver halide emulsion layer are preferably the high-sensitivity silver halide grains used in ordinary direct X-ray films.

The silver halide grains preferably have a spherical shape, a polyhedral shape, or a mixture of two or more thereof.
In particular, it is preferable that spherical particles and / or polyhedral particles having a diameter / thickness ratio of 5 or less account for 60% or more (weight ratio) of the whole.

The average particle size is preferably 0.5 μm to 3 μm, and if necessary, it can be grown using a solvent such as ammonia, thioether, thiourea or the like.

The silver halide grains have been sensitized by gold sensitization, sensitization with other metals, reduction sensitization, sulfur sensitization, or a sensitization with a combination of two or more thereof. Is preferred.

The other constitution of the upper emulsion layer is not particularly limited in the same manner as the layer containing tabular silver halide grains.
The description in Volume 176 of ch Disclosure can be referred to.

The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to which the processing of the present invention is applied is not limited to the above, and may contain tabular silver halide grains as shown below.

For example, in JP-A-58-113930, the upper layer has an aspect ratio of
A multilayer color photographic light-sensitive material having a two-layer dye-forming unit having an emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains of 8: 1 or more is disclosed in JP-A-58-113934, which is a green-sensitive layer and a red-sensitive layer. And a multilayer color photographic light-sensitive material using a silver iodobromide or silver bromide emulsion of tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 8: 1 or more, and in JP-A-58-113927, the central region is a circular region. A multilayer color photographic light-sensitive material having tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 8: 1 or more, which has a lower silver iodide content than that of JP-A-59-55426, has an aspect ratio of 3: 1. The above tabular silver halide grain is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which can be applied to a color containing a specific sensitizing dye, and in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-111696, the aspect ratio is 3: 1.
Above, a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing tabular silver halide grains mainly composed of (111) planes is disclosed, and the processing method of the present invention is also applied to these silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials. Applicable.

It is also preferable that the emulsion of the present invention contains epitaxy-bonded silver halide grains described in Japanese Patent Application No. 53-103725.

Next, the inhibitor-releasing compound of the present invention will be described.

The inhibitor-releasing compound of the present invention may be any compound as long as it releases or elutes an inhibitor which forms a silver salt having a solubility product with silver ion of 1 × 10 ^-9 or less during the development process, and especially DIR. A compound, a tetrazaindene derivative and a 6-aminopurine derivative are preferably used. Among these, the DIR compound is particularly preferably used because it gives good results in achieving the object of the present invention. Further, in addition to the DIR compound, a compound that releases a development inhibitor upon development is also included in the present invention. For example, U.S. Patents 3,297,445 and 3,379,529, West German patent application (OL
S) 2,417,914, JP-A Nos. 52-15271, 53-9116, and 5
Examples thereof include those described in 9-123838 and 59-127038.

The DIR compound used in the present invention is a compound capable of reacting with an oxidized product of a color developing agent to release a development inhibitor.

A typical example of such a DIR compound is a DIR coupler in which a group capable of forming a compound having a development inhibitory action when released from the active site is introduced into the active site of the coupler, for example, British Patent 935,454. , U.S. Patent 3,227,5
54, 4,095,984, 4,149,886, etc.

The above-mentioned DIR coupler has a property that, when it undergoes a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent, the coupler nucleus forms a dye, while releasing a development inhibitor. Further, in the present invention, U.S. Patent Nos. 3,652,345, 3,928,041, and 3,958,993.
No. 3,961,959, No. 4,052,213, JP-A-53-110529
No. 54-13333, No. 55-161237 and the like, when a coupling reaction with an oxidant of a color developing agent, a development inhibitor is released, but a compound which does not form a dye is also included. .

Furthermore, JP-A Nos. 54-145135, 56-114946 and
When reacted with an oxidant of a color developing agent as described in 57-154234, the mother nucleus forms a dye or a colorless compound, while the released timing group undergoes an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction or an elimination reaction. The so-called timing DIR compounds, which are compounds that release development inhibitors by, are also included in the present invention.

Further, when reacting with an oxidized product of a color developing agent described in JP-A-58-160954 and JP-A-58-162949, a timing group as described above is present in the coupler mother nucleus which forms a completely diffusible dye. It also includes a bound timing DIR compound.

According to the present invention, more preferred DIR compounds can be represented by the following general formulas [I] and / or [II], and among these, the most preferred DIR compounds are compounds represented by the following general formula [II].

In formula [I] A ₁ -Z ₁ , A ₁ is a coupling component (compound) capable of coupling with an oxidized product of a color developing agent, for example, a closed ketomethylene compound such as acylacetanilides or acylacetates, and pyrazolone. And pyrazolotriazoles, pyrazolinobenzimidazoles, indazolones, phenols, naphthols, and other dye-forming couplers, and acetophenones, indanones, oxazolones, and other coupling components that do not substantially form dyes.

Further, Z ₁ in the above formula is a component (compound) which is released by the reaction with a color developing agent and suppresses the development of silver halide, and preferred compounds are benztriazole and 3-
There are heterocyclic compounds such as octylthio-1,2,4-triazole and heterocyclic mercapto compounds (the heterocyclic mercapto group includes i-phenyltetrazolylthio group).

Examples of the heterocyclic group include a tetrazolyl group, a thiadiazolyl group, an oxadiazolyl group, a thiazolyl group, an oxazolyl group, an imidazolyl group, and a triazolyl group. Specifically, 1-phenyltetrazolylthio group, 1-ethyltetrazolyl group, 1- (4-hydroxyphenyl) tetrazolyl group, 1,3,4-thiazolyl group,
5-methyl-1,3,4-oxadiazolyl group, benzthiazolyl group, benzoxazolyl group, benzimidazolyl group, 4H-1,2,4-triazolyl group and the like.

In the above general formula [I], Z ₁ is bonded to the active site of A ₁ .

In formula (II) A ₂ -TIME-Z ₂ formula, A ₂ is the same as Z ₁ as defined in the general formula [I]. A ₂ also includes a coupling component that forms a completely diffusible dye, as in the case of the formula [I]. TIME is by the A ₂ reacts with an oxidation product of a color developing agent, separated from the compound represented by the general formula with Z ₂ (II) represents a timing group which then can release Z _2, TIME is the following General formulas [III], [IV], [V], [V
However, the present invention is not limited to these.

General formula (III) In the formula, X represents an atomic group necessary for completing a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring. Y is -O-, -S-, (Wherein R ₃ represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group), and is bonded to the coupling position. R ₁ and R ₂ each represent a group having the same meaning as R ₃ above, Is substituted at the ortho or para position with respect to Y and is bonded to the heteroatom contained in the control agent Z ₂ .

General formula (IV) In the formula, W is a group having the same meaning as Y in the formula [III], and R ₄ and R ₅ are also groups having the same meaning as R ₁ and R ₂ in the formula [III]. R ₆ is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, a sulfo group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a heterocyclic residue, and R ₇ is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic residue, an alkoxy group, an amino group. Represents a group, an acylamido group, a sulfonamide group, a carboxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, and a cyan group. And this timing group is attached to the coupling position of A ₂ by W, Binds to the heteroatom of inhibitor Z ₂ .

Next, an example of a timing group that releases the inhibitor Z ₂ by an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction is shown by the general formula [V].

General formula [V] In the formula, Nu is a nucleophilic group having an electron-rich oxygen, sulfur, or nitrogen atom and is bonded to the coupling position of A ₂ . E is an electrophilic group having an electron-deficient carbonyl group, thiocarbonyl group, phosphinyl group, or thiophosphinyl group, and is bonded to the heteroatom of the inhibitor Z ₂ . V is Nu from A ₂ have correlated sterically relationship Nu and E
Is a linking group capable of undergoing an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction involving the formation of a 3- to 7-membered ring, and thereby releasing the inhibitor Z ₂ .

General formula [VI] In the formula, R ₈ represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group,
The oxygen atom is attached to the coupling position of coupler A ₂ and the carbon atom is attached to the nitrogen atom of inhibitor Z ₂ .

General formula (VII) In the formula, Y'is a group having the same meaning as Y in the general formula [III], R ₉ is an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group,
It represents a heterocyclic group, which is attached by Y ′ to the coupling position of coupler A ₂ and by a carbon atom to the heteroatom of inhibitor Z ₂ .

Hereinafter, typical specific examples of the DIR compound according to the present invention will be described, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

[Exemplified compound]

The DIR compound of the present invention can be added to a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and / or a non-light-sensitive photographic constituent layer, but is preferably added to a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Two or more kinds of the DIR compound of the present invention may be contained in the same layer.
The same DIR compound may be contained in two or more different layers.

Generally, these DIR compounds are preferably 2 × 10 ^{−5 to} 5 × 10 ⁻¹ , and more preferably 1 × 10 5 per mol of silver in the emulsion layer.
^-4 to 1 x 10 ^-1 mol is used.

To incorporate these DIR compounds into the silver halide emulsion according to the present invention or other photographic constituent layer coating solution,
When the DIR compound is alkali-soluble, it may be added as an alkaline solution, and when it is oil-soluble,
For example, U.S. Patent Nos. 2,322,027, 2,801,170, and
No. 2,801,171, No. 2,272,191 and No. 2,304,940, the DIR compound is dissolved in a high-boiling solvent according to the method described in each specification, if necessary in combination with a low-boiling solvent, and dispersed in fine particles to be halogenated. It is preferably added to the silver emulsion. At this time, two or more kinds of DIR compounds may be mixed and used if necessary. Furthermore, in detail, the preferred method of adding a DIR compound in the present invention is to use one or more DIR compounds as organic acid amides, carbamates, esters, ketones, urea derivatives, ethers, hydrocarbons. Etc., especially di-n-butyl phthalate,
Tri-cresyl phosphate, triphenyl phosphate, di-isooctyl azelate, di-n-butyl sebacate, tri-n-hexyl phosphate, N, N-di-
Ethyl-caprylamidobutyl, N, N-diethyllaurylamide, n-pentadecylphenyl ether, di-octylphthalate, n-nonylphenol, 3-pentadecylphenylethyl ether, 2,5-di-sec-amylphenylbutyl ether, A high boiling point solvent such as monophenyl-di-o-chlorophenyl phosphate or fluoroparaffin, and / or methyl acetate, ethyl acetate,
Dissolved in low boiling point solvents such as propyl acetate, butyl acetate, butyl propionate, cyclohexanol, diethylene glycol monoacetate, nitromethane, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, cyclohexanetetrahydrofuran, methyl alcohol, acetonitrile, dimethylformamide, dioxane, methyl ethyl ketone, and alkylbenzene sulfone. An acid and an anionic surfactant such as an alkylnaphthalene sulfonic acid and / or a nonionic surfactant such as sorbitan sesquioleate and sorbitan monolaurate and / or an aqueous solution containing a hydrophilic binder such as gelatin,
It is emulsified and dispersed by a high-speed rotary mixer, colloid mill, ultrasonic dispersion device, etc. and added to the silver halide emulsion.

In addition, the DIR compound may be dispersed using a latex dispersion method. The latex dispersion method and its effects are described in JP-A-49-74538, JP-A-51-59943 and JP-A-54-32552, Research Disclosure, August 1976, No. 14850,
See pages 77-79.

Suitable latices include, for example, styrene, acrylates,
n-butyl acrylate, n-butyl methacrylate,
2-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate, 2- (methacryloyloxy) ethyltrimethylammonium methosulfate, 3- (methacryloyloxy) propane-1-sulfonic acid sodium salt, N-isopropylacrylamide, N- [2- (2-methyl-4) -Oxopentyl)] acrylamide, 2-acrylamido-2-
Homopolymers, copolymers and terpolymers of monomers such as methyl propane sulfonic acid and the like.

The above-mentioned DIR compounds are described in U.S. Patents 3,227,554 and 3,615,50.
No. 6, No. 3,617,291, No. 3,632,345, No. 3,928,041,
3,933,500, 3,938,996, 3,958,993, 3,9
61,959, 4,046,574, 4,052,213, 4,063,95
0, 4,095,984, 4,149,886, 4,234,678,
British Patent Nos. 2,072,363 and 2,070,266, Research Disclosure 21228 (1981), JP-A-50-81144
No. 50, No. 50-81145, No. 51-13239, No. 51-64927, No. 51
-104825, 51-105819, 52-65433, 52-82423
No. 52-117627, No. 52-130327, No. 52-154631,
53-7232, 53-9116, 53-29717, 53-70821
No. 53, No. 53-103472, No. 53-110529, No. 53-135333,
53-143223, 54-13333, 54-49138, 54-11
No. 4241, No. 57-35858, No. 54-145135, No. 55-161237
No. 56-114946, No. 57-154234, No. 57-56837, and Japanese Patent Application Nos. 57-44831 and 57-45809.

The DIR compound of the present invention can be added to the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and / or the non-light-sensitive photographic constituent layer as described above, but it is preferably contained in at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers. Is. For example, when it is applied to an ordinary multilayer color photographic light-sensitive material having a blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a red light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, it is contained in one or more layers of these. You can do it.

The tetrazaindene derivative used in the present invention is known as a stabilizer for a silver halide emulsion of a photographic light-sensitive material, but those represented by the following general formula [VIII] exhibit particularly preferable effects.

General formula [VIII] In the formula, m and n are integers of 1, 2 or 3, and R ₈ and R ₉ are each a hydrogen atom or a carbon atom which may have a substituent.
Represents an alkenyl group, an alkyl group or an aryl group which may have a substituent.

The tetrazaindene derivative represented by the general formula [VIII] is particularly effective, but specific examples of the tetrazaindene derivative more effectively used in the present invention are shown below, but the tetrazaindene derivative is not limited thereto. Absent.

[Exemplified Compound] A-1 4-hydroxy-1,3,3a, 7-tetrazaindene A-2 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a, 7-tetrazaindene A-3 4-hydroxy -6-hydroxy-1,3,3a, 7-
Tetrazaindene A-4 4-hydroxy-6-butyl-1,3,3a, 7-tetrazaindene A-5 4-hydroxy-5,6-dimethyl-1,3,3a, 7-
Tetrazaindene A-6 2-ethyl-4-hydroxy-6-propyl-
1,3,3a, 7-tetrazaindene A-7 2-allyl-4-hydroxy-1,3,3a, 7-tetrazaindene A-8 4-hydroxy-6-phenyl-1,3,3a, 7-Tetrazaindene These compounds can be synthesized with reference to the descriptions in Japanese Examined Patent Publication Nos. 46-18102 and 44-2533. Of these compounds, those having a hydroxyl group at the 4-position are preferable, and those having a hydroxyl group at the 4-position and an alkyl group or an aryl group at the 6-position are more preferable.

The 6-aminopurine derivative in the present invention includes those known as stabilizers for silver halide emulsions of photographic light-sensitive materials, and those represented by the following general formula [IX] exhibit particularly preferable effects.

General formula [IX] In the formula, R ₁₀ is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, R ₁₁ is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, or It represents an aryl group which may have a substituent.

As the 6-aminopurine derivative in the present invention, the one represented by the above general formula [IX] is particularly effective, but specific examples of the 6-aminopurine derivative which can be more effectively used are shown below, but are not limited thereto. is not.

[Exemplified Compound] B-1 6-aminopurine B-2 2-hydroxy-6-aminopurine B-3 2-methyl-6-aminopurine B-4 6-amino-8-methylpurine B-5 6-amino -8-phenylpurine B-6 2-hydroxy-6-amino-8-phenylpurine B-7 2-hydroxymethyl-6-aminopurine These tetrazaindene derivatives and 6-aminopurine derivatives are preferably halogenated. 5 mg to 1 per mole of silver
When added in an amount of 8 g and used, a good effect is achieved for the purpose of the present invention.

Further, among the compounds forming a silver salt having a solubility product with silver ions of 1 × 10 ⁻⁹ or less, the solubility product is particularly 1
Those having a ^{density of x10 -11} or less more preferably exhibit the effects of the present invention.

However, DIR compounds and tetrazaindene derivatives and 6-
It is known that an aminopurine derivative is added to an ordinary silver halide emulsion to improve image quality and suppress ripening fogging and the like that occur during emulsion production, but it is used in combination with the processing of the present invention. At this time, it was not known at all to obtain the effect of improving the graininess.

The aromatic primary amine color developing agent used in the color developing solution of the present invention includes known ones widely used in various color photographic processes. These developers include aminophenol-based and p-phenylenediamine-based derivatives. Since these compounds are more stable than the free state, they are generally used in the form of salts, for example, hydrochlorides or sulfates. Also, these compounds are generally used at a concentration of about 0.1 g to about 30 g for color developer 1, more preferably a concentration of about 1 g to about 15 g for 1.

Examples of the aminophenol-based developer include o-aminophenol, p-aminophenol, 5-amino-2-
Oxy-toluene, 2-amino-3-oxy-toluene, 2-oxy-3-amino-1,4-dimethyl-benzene and the like are included.

A particularly useful aromatic primary amine color developing agent is an aromatic primary amine color developing agent having an amino group having at least one water-soluble group, and particularly preferably represented by the following general formula [X]. It is a compound.

General formula [X] In the formula, R ₁₃ represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group, and the alkyl group has a linear or branched carbon number of 1
Represents an alkyl group of 5 to 5 and may have a substituent. R ₁₄ and R ₁₅ represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, and these groups may have a substituent, and in the case of an alkyl group, an alkyl group substituted with an aryl group is preferable. At least one of R ₁₄ and R ₁₅ is an alkyl group substituted with a water-soluble group such as a hydroxyl group, a carboxylic acid group, a sulfonic acid group, an amino group or a sulfonamide group, or (CH ₂ ) _{q Op} R ₁₆ . This alkyl group may further have a substituent.

R ₁₆ represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, the alkyl group represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and p and q represent integers of 1 to 5.

Next, the compounds represented by the above general formula [X] are listed, but the invention is not limited thereto.

[Exemplified compound]

The p-phenylenediamine derivative represented by the general formula [X] can be used as a salt of an organic acid and an inorganic acid, for example, hydrochloride, sulfate, phosphate, p-toluenesulfonate, sulfite, oxalic acid. Salts, benzenedisulfonate, etc. can be used.

In the present invention, among these p-phenylenediamine derivatives represented by the above general formula [X], R ₁₄ and / or R
_{When 15} is a group represented by (CH ₂ ) _{q Op} R ₁₆ (p, q and R ₁₆ are as defined above), the effect of the present invention is particularly excellent.

Preferred compounds for use in the color developing solution of the present invention include sulfite, hydroxylamine, and development inhibitor.

As sulfites, there are sodium sulfite, sodium hydrogen sulfite, potassium sulfite, potassium hydrogen sulfite, etc.
It is preferably used in the range of 1 to 40 g / l, more preferably 0.5 g to 10 g / l.

Hydroxylamine is used as a counter salt to hydrochloride, sulfate, etc., and is preferably used in the range of 0.1 to 40 g / l,
More preferably, it is used in the range of 0.5 g to 10 g / l.

Examples of the inhibitor include halides such as sodium bromide, potassium bromide, sodium iodide, potassium iodide, etc., examples of the organic inhibitor include the following compounds, and the addition amount is 0.
It is in the range of 005 to 20 g / l, preferably in the range of 0.01 g to 5 g / l.

The organic inhibitor in the present invention, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound,
Compounds containing a mercapto group, aromatic compounds, onium compounds and compounds having an iodine atom as a substituent, and the like, preferably represented by the following general formulas [RI], [R-II] and [R-III]. Is a compound.

The compound represented by the general formula [RI] is more preferably a compound represented by the general formula [R-IV] or [RV], and most preferably the general formula [R-VI] to [R-VI]. R-
XI].

On the other hand, the compound represented by the general formula [R-II] is most preferably the general formula [R-XII] or [R-XII].
It is a compound represented by I].

General formula [RI] In the formula, X and X ₁ are a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a carboxyl group or a sulfonyl group, and X ₂ is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or 2 for forming a ring. Indicates a heavy bond. Z is a group consisting of a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom and a sulfur atom necessary for forming a ring, and n and m are 0, 1 or 2.

General formula [R-II] In the formula, Y, Y ₁ , Y ₂ and Y ₃ represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a carboxyl group and a sulfonyl group.

General formula [R-III] In the formula, T is a nitrogen atom or a phosphorus atom, X ₂ and X ₃ are hydrogen atoms,
An alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom, Y ₄ and Y ₅ represent an alkyl group and an aryl group, and Y ₄ and Y ₅ may be ring-closed to form a hetero ring.

General formula [R-IV] Compounds in which 2 to 5 carbon atoms of 1 to 9 are substituted with nitrogen atoms and derivatives thereof General formula [R-V] Compounds in which 2 to 4 carbon atoms of 1 to 5 are substituted with nitrogen atoms and derivatives thereof General formula [R-VI] General formula [R-VII] General formula [R-VIII] General formula [R-IX] General formula [R-X] General formula [R-XI] General formula [R-XII] General formula [R-XIII] In each formula, R, R ₁ , R ₂ , Y ₁ and Y ₂ have the same meaning as Y, Y ₁ , Y ₂ and Y _{3 in} the description of [R-II] above.

[Examples of organic inhibitors] _{Z31 HSC 2 H 4 O 2 C} 2 H 4 O n COC 2 H 4 SH (n = 35~45) _{Z48 IC 2 H 4 C 2 H} 4 O n C 2 H 4 I The color developer used in the present invention further contains various components that are usually added, for example, alkali agents such as sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, alkali metal thiocyanates, alkali metal halides, benzyl alcohol, and water softeners. Also, a thickening agent, a development accelerator and the like can be optionally contained.

Examples of the additives other than those mentioned above that are added to the color developing solution include anti-stain agents, anti-sludge agents, preservatives, multi-layer effect accelerators and chelating agents.

The color developing solution of the present invention is preferably used at a pH of 9 or higher, especially at pH 9 to 13.

In addition to the above, the processing method of the photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention is not particularly limited, and any processing method can be applied. For example, as a typical example thereof, a method of performing color developing solution, bleach-fixing treatment and further washing with water stabilization treatment or water washing, color developing solution, performing bleaching and fixing separately, and further washing with water washing stabilization treatment or water washing. Or predural,
Neutralization, color development, stop-fixing, washing alternative stabilizing treatment (or washing), bleaching, fixing, washing alternative stabilizing treatment (or washing), post-curing, washing alternative stabilizing treatment (or washing) in this order,
Color development, stabilizing treatment after washing (or washing with water), supplementary color development, stopping, bleaching, fixing, stabilizing treatment after washing with water (or washing with water), a method of performing in order of stability, and developing silver produced by color development is subjected to halogenation bleach. After that, it may be processed by any method such as a developing method in which color development is performed again to increase the amount of dye formed.

In the present invention, to treat with a treatment solution having a bleaching ability,
It means that the treatment is performed with a bleaching solution or a one-bath bleach-fixing solution, but the effect of the present invention is excellently achieved when the one-bath bleach-fixing treatment is performed.

As the bleaching agent used in the bleaching solution or the bleach-fixing solution in the bleaching step, those in which metal ions such as iron, cobalt and copper are coordinated with an organic acid such as aminopolycarboxylic acid or oxalic acid, citric acid are generally known. There is. And the following can be mentioned as a typical example of said amino polycarboxylic acid.

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid propylenediaminetetraacetic acid nitrilotriacetic acid iminodiacetic acid glycol etherdiaminetetraacetic acid ethylenediaminetetrapropionic acid ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium salt diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid pentasodium salt nitrilotriacetic acid sodium salt The bleaching solution and bleach-fixing solution of the present invention are It can be used at a pH of 0.2 to 9.5, preferably 4.0 or higher, more preferably 5.0 or higher. The treatment temperature is 20 ° C to 80 ° C, preferably 40 ° C or higher.

The bleaching solution of the present invention can contain various additives in addition to the bleaching agent as described above (preferably ferric organic acid complex salt). As the additive, it is particularly preferable to contain an alkali halide or an ammonium halide such as potassium bromide, sodium bromide, sodium chloride, ammonium bromide, potassium iodide, sodium iodide, ammonium iodide. Also, pH buffers such as borate, oxalate, acetate, carbonate, and phosphate, solubilizers such as triethanolamine, acetylacetone, phosphonocarboxylic acid, polyphosphoric acid, organic sulfonic acid, oxycarboxylic acid, polycarboxylic acid. Acids, alkylamines, polyethylene oxides, and the like which are known to be added to ordinary bleaching solutions can be appropriately added.

The bleach-fixing solution of the present invention comprises a bleach-fixing solution containing a small amount of a halogen compound such as potassium bromide, or conversely, a bleaching solution containing a composition containing a large amount of a halogen compound such as potassium bromide or ammonium bromide. A fixing solution and a special bleach-fixing solution having a composition comprising a combination of the bleaching agent of the present invention and a large amount of a halogen compound such as potassium bromide can also be used.

As the halogen compound, other than potassium bromide, hydrochloric acid, hydrobromic acid, lithium bromide, sodium bromide,
Ammonium bromide, potassium iodide, sodium iodide, ammonium iodide and the like can also be used.

The silver halide fixing agent contained in the bleach-fixing solution of the present invention is a compound which reacts with silver halide as used in a usual fixing process to form a water-soluble complex salt, for example, potassium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulfate, Typical examples thereof include thiosulfates such as ammonium thiosulfate, potassium thiocyanate, sodium thiocyanate, thiocyanates such as ammonium thiocyanate, thiourea, thioether, high concentration bromide and iodide. These fixing agents can be used in an amount within a range capable of dissolving 5 g / l or more, preferably 50 g / l or more, more preferably 70 g / l or more.

In the bleach-fixing solution of the present invention, as in the case of the bleaching solution, boric acid, borax, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, acetic acid, sodium acetate, hydroxide. A pH buffer agent composed of various salts such as ammonium can be contained alone or in combination of two or more kinds. Further, various fluorescent whitening agents, antifoaming agents, surfactants and antifungal agents may be contained. In addition, hydroxyamine, hydrazine, sulfite, isomeric bisulfite, preservative of bisulfite adduct of aldehyde or ketone compound, acetylacetone, phosphonocarboxylic acid, polyphosphoric acid, organic phosphonic acid, oxycarboxylic acid, polycarboxylic acid, Organic chelating agents such as dicarboxylic acids and aminopolycarboxylic acids, nitro alcohols, stabilizers such as nitrates, solubilizers such as alkanol amines, stain inhibitors such as organic amines, other additives, methanol, dimethylformamide,
An organic solvent such as dimethyl sulfoxide can be appropriately contained.

In the processing method using the processing solution of the present invention, bleaching or bleach-fixing is most preferably carried out immediately after color development, but after color development, bleaching or bleach-fixing is performed after washing with water or rinsing and stopping. May be processed,
A prebath containing a bleaching accelerator may be used as a processing solution prior to bleaching or bleach-fixing.

Regarding the processing temperature of processing other than color development of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention, for example, bleach-fixing (or bleaching / fixing), and optionally various washing steps such as washing or stabilization of washing alternatives performed The temperature is preferably 20 ° C to 80 ° C, more preferably 40 ° C or higher.

In the present invention, JP-A-58-14834, 58-105145,
It is preferable to carry out a water washing alternative stabilization treatment as shown in JP-A-58-134634 and JP-A-58-18631 and Japanese Patent Application Nos. 58-2709 and 59-89288.

Each silver halide emulsion according to the present invention may contain a coupler, that is, a compound capable of reacting with an oxidized product of a color developing agent to form a dye.

As the coupler usable in the present invention, various yellow couplers, magenta couplers and cyan couplers can be used without particular limitation. These couplers may be so-called 2-equivalent type or 4-equivalent type couplers, and it is also possible to use diffusible dye releasing type couplers in combination with these couplers.

Examples of the yellow coupler include a closed ketomethylene compound and an active site called a so-called 2-equivalent coupler.
o-aryl substituted coupler, active point-o-acyl substituted coupler, active point hydantoin compound substituted coupler, active point urazole compound substituted coupler and active point succinimide compound substituted coupler, active point fluorine substituted coupler, active point chlorine or bromine substituted Coupler, active point -o
-Sulfonyl-substituted couplers and the like can be used as effective yellow couplers. Specific examples of yellow couplers that can be used include U.S. Patents 2,875,057 and 3,265,506.
No. 3,408,194, 3,551,155, 3,582,322,
3,725,072, 3,891,445, West German patent 1,547,868
No. 2, West German Application Publication No. 2,219,917, No. 2,261,361, No. 2,41
4,006, British Patent 1,425,020, Japanese Patent Publication No. 51-10783, JP-A-47-26133, 48-73147, 51-102636, 50-
6341, 50-123342, 50-130442, 51-21827
No. 50, No. 50-87650, No. 52-82424, No. 52-115219, No. 5
Examples thereof include those described in 8-95346.

Examples of the magenta coupler used in the present invention include pyrazolone-based, pyrazolotriazole-based, pyrazolinobenzimidazole-based and indazolone-based compounds. These magenta couplers may be not only 4-equivalent type couplers but also 2-equivalent type couplers like the yellow couplers. Specific examples of magenta couplers include U.S. Patents 2,600,788, 2,983,608 and 3,06.
2,653, 3,127,269, 3,311,476, 3,419,391
No. 3,519,429, 3,558,319, 3,582,322,
3,615,506, 3,834,908, 3,891,445, West German patent 1,810,464, West German patent application (OLS) 2,408,665,
2,417,945, 2,418,959, 2,424,467, JP-B-40-6031, JP-A-51-20826, 52-58922, 49-
129538, 49-74027, 50-159336, 52-42121
No. 49-74028, 50-60233, 51-26541, 53
-55122, Japanese Patent Application No. 55-110943 and the like can be mentioned.

Further, useful cyan couplers used in the present invention include, for example, phenol type and naphthol type couplers. And these cyan couplers may be not only 4-equivalent type couplers but also 2-equivalent type couplers like the yellow couplers. Specific examples of cyan couplers include U.S. Patents 2,369,929 and 2,434,272.
No. 2, 2,474,293, 2,521,908, 2,895,826,
3,034,892, 3,311,476, 3,458,315, 3,4
76,563, 3,583,971, 3,591,383, 3,767,41
No. 1, 3,772,002, 3,933,494, 4,004,929,
West German patent application (OLS) 2,414,830, 2,454,329, JP-A-48-59838, 51-26034, 48-5055, 51-14
6827, 52-69624, 52-90932, 58-95346,
Examples thereof include those described in Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 49-11572.

Couplers such as colored magenta or cyan couplers and polymer couplers may be used in combination in the silver halide emulsion layer and other photographic constituent layers of the present invention. Regarding the colored magenta or cyan coupler, Japanese Patent Application No. 59-59
-193611, and for polymer couplers, the description of Japanese Patent Application No. 59-172151 by the present applicant can be referred to.

The method of adding the above-mentioned coupler which can be used in the present invention to the photographic constitutional layer of the present invention is the same as before, and the addition amount of the above-mentioned coupler is not limited, but 1 × 10 ^-3 to 1 mol of silver is added.
5 mol is preferable, and more preferably 1 × 10 ^{-2 to} 5 × 10 ^-1.
Is.

The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention may contain various other photographic additives, for example, antifoggants, stabilizers, and ultraviolet absorbers described in Research Disclosure Magazine 17643. A color stain preventing agent, a fluorescent whitening agent, a color image fading preventing agent, an antistatic agent, a film hardening agent, a surfactant, a plasticizer, a wetting agent and the like can be used.

In the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention, hydrophilic colloids used for preparing emulsions include gelatin, derivative gelatin, graft polymers of gelatin and other polymers, proteins such as albumin and casein, and hydroxy. Any one of ethyl cellulose derivative, cellulose derivative such as carboxymethyl cellulose, starch derivative, single or copolymer synthetic hydrophilic polymer such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl imidazole, polyacrylamide and the like is included.

Examples of the support of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention include glass plates, polyester films such as cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate or polyethylene terephthalate, polyamide films, polycarbonate films, polystyrene films, and the like. The body is appropriately selected according to the purpose of use of the light-sensitive material.

In the light-sensitive material of the present invention, it is optional to provide an intermediate layer having an appropriate thickness depending on the purpose, and further, a filter layer,
Various layers such as an anti-curl layer, a protective layer and an antihalation layer can be appropriately combined and used as constituent layers.
A hydrophilic colloid which can be used in the emulsion layer as described above can be similarly used as a binder in these constituent layers, and various hydrophilic colloids can be contained in the emulsion layer as described above. The above photographic additives can be incorporated.

The processing method of the present invention can be applied to silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials such as color negative films, color positive films, slide color reversal films, movie color reversal films and TV color reversal films.

[Examples] Specific examples of the present invention will be described below, but embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.

Granularity (RMS) is the value of a color image with a color image density of 1.0.
It was carried out by comparing 1000 times the standard deviation of the variation of the density value produced when scanning with a micron densitometer with a circular scanning aperture diameter of 25 μm.

In all of the following examples, the amount added in the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material was per 1 m ² , and the silver halide and colloidal silver were converted to silver.

Example 1 The silver iodobromide emulsion shown in Table 1 was prepared by the following production method. A was produced by the usual double jet method. B ~
For D, a core / shell type monodisperse emulsion was produced by the function addition method. E was a tabular silver halide emulsion prepared by the double jet method while controlling pH and pAg.

The following layers were sequentially coated on a cellulose triacetate support to prepare a multilayer color film sample.

First layer, antihalation layer (HC layer) An antihalation layer consisting of 0.18 g of black colloidal silver and 1.5 g of gelatin.

Second layer, undercoat layer (1G layer) An undercoat layer made of 2.0 g of gelatin.

Third Layer, Red-Sensitive Silver Halide Emulsion Layer (R Layer) 4.0 g of each of the silver iodobromide emulsions shown in Table 1 that are red-sensitized and 0.08 mol / mol Ag of a cyan coupler ( C-1), 0.006 mol / mol Ag colored cyan coupler (CC-1) and the DIR compound shown in Table 2 were dissolved in 0.5 g of tricresyl phosphate (referred to as TCP), and the inhibitor was dissolved in methanol. A red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dispersion which is dissolved and emulsified and dispersed in an aqueous solution containing 1.80 g of gelatin.

Fourth layer, intermediate layer (2G layer) An intermediate layer composed of 0.14 g of 2,5-di-t-butylhydroquinone and 0.07 g of dibutyl phthalate (referred to as DBP).

Fifth layer, green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (G layer) 4.0 g of each of the silver iodobromide emulsions shown in Table 1 sensitized with green sensitivity and 0.07 mol / mol Ag of magenta coupler ( M-1), 0.015 mol / mol Ag colored magenta coupler (CM-1), and the DIR compound shown in Table 2 were dissolved.
A green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dispersion of 4 g of TCP emulsified and dispersed in an aqueous solution containing 1.4 g of gelatin.

6th layer, protective layer (3G layer) A protective layer containing 0.8 g of gelatin.

In addition to the above, each layer contains a gelatin hardening agent (1,2-bisvinylsulfonylethane) and a surfactant, and the silver halides shown in Table 1 are added to the R layer of the third layer and the G layer of the fifth layer. The emulsion and the DIR compound or inhibitor described in Table 2 were added, and samples were prepared so that the ratio of the amount of developed silver to the amount of coated silver was within the range of the present invention.

Cyan coupler (C-1) 2- (α, α, β, β, γ, γ, δ, δ-octafluorohexanamide-5- [2- (2,4-di-t-amylphenoxy) hexanamide ] Phenol Colored cyan coupler (CC-1) 1-hydroxy-4- [4- (1-hydroxy-8-acetamido-3,6-disulfo-2-naphthylazo) phenoxy] -N- [δ- (2,4 -Di-t-amylphenoxy) butyl] -2-naphthamide disodium salt Magenta coupler (M-1) 1- (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) -3-{[α-
(2,4-Di-t-amylphenoxy) -acetamide]
Benzamido} -3-pyrazolone and 1- (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) -3-{[α- (2,4-di-t-amylphenoxy) -acetamido] benzamide} -4
-(4-Methoxyphenylazo) -5-pyrazolone Colored magenta coupler (CM-1) 1- (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) -4- (1-naphthylazo) -3- (2-chloro-5- Octadecenylsuccinimidoanilino) -5-pyrazolone Each sample was given green light, red light, green light + red light (16 CMS) through a wedge, and processed in the following processing steps to obtain a dye image. .

Processing process Color development Time and temperature shown in Table 2 Bleach-fixing 4 minutes (38 ° C) Washing with water 1 minute (20-33 ° C) Stabilization 30 seconds (20-33 ° C) Drying The processing liquid composition used in each processing step is It is as follows.

[Color developer] 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N- (β-hydroxyethyl) -aniline ・ sulfate 4.75g anhydrous sodium sulfite 4.25g hydroxylamine ・ 1/2 sulfate 2.0g anhydrous potassium carbonate 30.0 g Sodium bromide 1.3 g Nitrilotriacetic acid trisodium salt (monohydrate) 2.5 g Potassium hydroxide 1.0 g Add water to make 1.

[Bleach-fixing solution] Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ammonium salt 200g Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid diammonium salt 2.0g Ammonia water (28% aqueous solution) 20.0g Ammonium thiosulfate 175.0g Anhydrous sodium sulfite 8.5g Sodium metasulfite 2.3g 2-Amino-5-mercapto -1,3,4-thiadiazole
Add 1.5g water to make 1 and use acetic acid and ammonia water to obtain pH =
Adjust to 6.6.

[Washing] Tap water [Stabilizer] Formalin (37% aqueous solution) 1.5 ml Conidax (Konishi Rokusha Kogyo Co., Ltd.) 7.5 ml Add water to make 1.

The obtained granularity (RMS) is shown in Table 2. The amount of the DIR compound added to each color-sensitive layer was controlled so that the desensitization and the density decrease in the layer were almost the same. In addition, when the amount of developed silver in the maximum density portion after each processing was measured, Experiment 1 to
Up to 15, all were between 15 and 25% of the coated silver amount.

As is clear from Table 2, in Comparative Experiments 1 to 6, in Experiments 7 to 15 of the present invention, it was found that the granularity (RMS) was small and the granularity was improved, and the visual observation was very high. It turned out to be preferable.

Example 2 Similar to the core / shell type silver iodobromide emulsions B to D used in Example 1, the shell thickness was adjusted to 0.05 μm and silver iodobromide was added so as to have the silver iodide content shown in Table 3. Separately, the tabular silver iodobromide Emulsion E was prepared in the same manner as the tabular silver iodobromide Emulsion E so that the silver iodide contents shown in Table 3 were obtained. Using the above core / shell type emulsion for the green-sensitive layer and the tabular emulsion for the red-sensitive layer, as shown in Table 3,
Samples No. 16 to No. 29 in which the amount of coated silver was changed were prepared by the method described in Example 1. In the green layer, Exemplified Compound D-11 0.2 × 10 ^-2 mol / mol Ag and Exemplified Compound A-1 1.0
× 10 ^-2 mol / mol Ag was added, and exemplary compound D was added to the red-sensitive layer.
−14 0.2 × 10 ⁻² mol / mol Ag and Exemplified Compound B-1 0.02 ×
10 ⁻² mol / mol Ag was added.

After exposure of Samples No. 16 to No. 29, color development was performed for 3 minutes and 30 seconds at 38 ° C. and 1 minute at 55 ° C. in the same processing solution and processing steps as in Example 1.

The temperatures at which the sensitivities obtained by the respective treatments were almost the same were 3 minutes and 30 seconds, and 38 ° C was 55 ° C for 1 minute.

The granularity (RMS) of the processed sample was measured. The RMS improvement ratio was calculated by the following formula and is shown in Table 3.

As is clear from Table 3, in the present invention, the silver iodide content is 3
It can be seen that when the ratio of [developed silver amount in maximum density part] / [total silver amount] is 0.5% or less and the graininess is improved, it is very preferable.

Example 3 Using the sample No. 26 of Example 2, the effect of adding the inhibitor to the color developing solution was examined. Color development was carried out for 1 minute at 55 ° C. in the processing solution and processing steps of Example 1, the inhibitors of Table 4 were added to the color developing solution, and development processing was carried out to measure the graininess (RMS value).

As is apparent from Table 4, in the present invention, it is preferable to add an organic inhibitor to the color developing solution.

Example 4 In the method for preparing the light-sensitive material of Example 1, the same silver iodide content and coating silver amount as in Sample No. 26 of Example 2 above the fifth layer, that is, 6th to 9th layers or more were A light-sensitive material coated with each emulsion layer was prepared as described above.

6th layer: 0.3g yellow colloidal silver, 0.2g antifouling agent (2,
5-di-t-octylhydroquinone) dissolved 0.11 g
Yellow filter layer containing DBP and 2.1 g gelatin.

7th layer: 1.02 g of low-sensitivity blue-sensitive silver iodobromide emulsion layer (AgI; 4 mol%), 1.9 g of gelatin and 1.84 g of α- [4- (1
-Benzyl-2-phenyl-3,5-dioxo-1,2,4-triazolidinyl)]-α-pivaloyl-2-chloro-5
-[Γ- (2,4-di-t-amylphenoxy) butanamide] acetanilide [hereinafter, yellow coupler (Y-
1)], a low-sensitivity blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing 0.93 g of DBP dissolved therein.

Eighth layer: 1.6 g of high-sensitivity monodisperse blue-sensitive silver iodobromide emulsion layer (Ag
I; 4 mol%), 2.0 g of gelatin and 0.23 g of DBP in which 0.46 g of the yellow coupler (Y-1) is dissolved to obtain a high-sensitivity blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Ninth layer: protective layer made of gelatin (same as the sixth layer of Example 1).

Next, the composition of the treatment liquid used in the experiment is shown.

[Color developer (CD)] Potassium carbonate 30.0g Sodium sulfite 2.0g Hydroxylamine sulfate 2.0g 1-Hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid (60%
Aqueous solution) 1.0 g Potassium bromide 1.2 g Magnesium chloride 0.6 g Sodium hydroxide 3.4 g N-methyl-N-β-hydroxyethyl-3-methyl-
4-Aminoaniline Sulfate 4.6g Hydroxyethyliminodiacetic acid 3.0g Organic inhibitor Z-5 0.2g Add water to 1 and adjust pH = 1 with potassium hydroxide and sulfuric acid.
Adjust to 0.2.

[Bleaching fixer (BF)] Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid diammonium salt 7.5g Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid ferric ammonium complex salt 15
0.0g Ammonium sulfite (50% aqueous solution) 20.0ml Ammonium thiosulfate (70% aqueous solution) 250.0ml 2-Amino-5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole
1.5g Ammonia water (28% aqueous solution) 20.0g Add water to make 1 and use acetic acid and ammonia water for pH =
Adjust to 7.5.

[Bleaching solution (BL)] Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ferric ammonium complex salt 200.0 g Ammonium bromide 180.0 g Water is added to adjust to 1 and pH is adjusted to 6.0 using ammonia water.

[Fixer] Ammonium thiosulfate (70% aqueous solution) 250.0 ml Ammonium sulfite (40% aqueous solution) 25.0 ml Add water to make pH 1 and use acetic acid and aqueous ammonia to adjust pH =
Adjust to 7.0.

[Washing with acid water (W)] Tap water [Stabilizing solution for washing (SS)] 1-Hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid (60%
Aqueous solution) 3.0 g 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one 0.1 g 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one 0.1 g ethylene glycol 1.0 g Water was added to make 1 and potassium hydroxide was used. PH = 7.1
Adjust to.

[Final Stabilizer (ST)] Using the above processing solution, the photosensitive material prepared above was processed to have a width of 35 mm at each processing step, temperature and time of Experiment Nos. 30 to 40 shown in Table 5, and half of the processed material was processed. It was dried by passing through a roller-conveying dryer. One half sample was hung in a drying box, dried with hot air so as not to come into contact with it, and then passed twice through a negative baking frame of a color printer 5NS (manufactured by Konishi Rokusha Kogyo KK).

The number of scratches on the light-sensitive material was visually determined for each, and the scratches per 1 m are shown in Table 5. The color development level was changed with respect to time so that almost the same sensitivity was obtained.

As is clear from Table 5, as in Experiment Nos. 30 and 31, the color development is inactive and the color development time of about 3 minutes causes very few scratches on the photosensitive material regardless of the immersion time of the processing solution. However, if the color development is active and less than 2 minutes,
When the immersion time of the processing solutions of Nos. 32 and 33 is long, the photosensitive material is often scratched, whereas when the immersion time of the processing solutions of Experiment Nos. 34 to 40 of the present invention is less than 9 minutes, the scratches of the photosensitive material are caused. It can be seen that the number of is significantly reduced, which is very preferable.

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A core-shell silver halide grain containing 3.0 mol% or more of silver iodide and / or a tabular silver halide grain containing 3.0 mol% or more of silver iodide and having a solubility product of 1 with a silver ion. Aromatic primary amine type color developing agent after imagewise exposure of a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a compound which releases an inhibitor or an inhibitor precursor which forms a silver salt of 10 ⁹ or less. Using a color developing solution containing, for 120 seconds or less and [developed silver amount in maximum density part] /
A silver halide characterized by being subjected to color development processing such that the value of [total silver amount] is 0.5 or less, and the processing solution immersion time from the color development to the processing with the final processing solution is 540 seconds or less. Color photographic light-sensitive material processing method. 2. The method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the color development processing temperature is 43 ° C. or higher. 3. The method of processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the processing step following color development is processing with an aqueous solution having a specific gravity of 1.1 or more. 4. The method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 3, wherein the processing step following color development is processing with a bleach-fixing solution. 5. The method of processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which has substantially no water-washing step. 6. The method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 5, which comprises a treatment with a stabilizing solution as a substitute for washing with water. 7. The method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the color development processing temperature is 48 ° C. or higher.