(57) There is provided a silver halide photographic, black-and-white medical hard copy material, comprising an opaque reflecting polymeric support and at least one hydrophilic colloid outermost layer, characterised in that :

(i) the material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer A and a silver halide emulsion layer B, coated on the same side of said support, the emulsion layer B being closest to said support and

(ii) the silver halide emulsion layer A is faster than the silver halide emulsion layer B.

Emulsion layer A is preferably between 1.25 and 3.20 times faster than emulsion layer B.
A method is also provided for printing radiological images in combination with the protocol describing said radiological images onto a single sheet of hard-copy film.