dust being carried into the processor by the film to be processed and generation of very small metallic silver particles in the developer, due to the development process, together with the evitable manipulations like arrest in development, start of the circulation of processing and regeneration liquids make the generated solid particles become deposited onto the rollers of the racks. Otherwise for industrial radiography wherein in a normal processing cycle in an automatic processing machine use is made of film transport over racks, wherein each of said racks is provided with a lot of rollers immersed in the different processing baths, pollution by e.g. Sludge formation is one of the major problems when attempting to further reduce the replenishing rates and to avoid waste. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONįrom an ecological point of view, there is a continuous pressure on waste reduction in photographic processing.Ĭombined with customer demands for a more convenient processing, this results in ever decreasing replenishing rates for both developer and fixer.
The present invention relates to a solution for sludge formation and “pi-line” artefact, while processing silver halide photographic materials. This Application claims benefit of 60/402,991 filed Aug.