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(11) EP 0 450 293 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
10.02.1993 Bulletin 1993/06

(43) Date of publication A2:
09.10.1991 Bulletin 1991/41

(21) Application number: 91102316.6

(22) Date of filing: 19.02.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5G03C 7/407
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE GB

(30) Priority: 21.02.1990 JP 41549/90

(71) Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
Tokyo 163 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Ishikawa, Masao
    Hino-shi, Tokyo (JP)
  • Koboshi, Shigeharu
    Hino-shi, Tokyo (JP)

(74) Representative: Türk, Gille, Hrabal, Leifert 
Brucknerstrasse 20
40593 Düsseldorf
40593 Düsseldorf (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Bleaching solution for light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material and processing method using the same


    (57) Disclosed are a bleaching solution for a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising at least 0.10 mole/t of a ferric complex salt of a compound represented by the following formula (A) and 50 mole % or less of total cations being ammonium ions,

    wherein A1 to A4 may be the same or different, respectively and represent -CH20H, -COOM or -PO3M1M2 where M, M1 and M2 each represent a hydrogen atom, sodium, potassium or ammonium; and X represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms and a total carbon number including a branched part is 3 or more,
    and a processing method of a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material using the same.





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