MONITORING OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE SILVER-HALIDE DIFFUSION TRANSFER PROCESS WITH A LINEAR CCD

In this paper, a linear CCD was used to detect the whole physical deve lopment: process directly on the silver halide direct printing plate. The activity of the physical developing nuclei was also detected, and the influence of the ingredients of the working solution such as devel oper hydroquinone, silver complexing agent, and the environment such a s pH, was evaluated. It was proved that the CCD technique was very suc cessful in detecting the physical development process in the diffusion transfer reversal (DTR) system.