| abstract |
A method of forming an image comprising exposing, developing and fixing a laser scanner-utilizable silver halide photographic material which has at least one silver halide emulsion layer sensitized spectrally in an infrared region on one side of a support, said silver halide photographic material containing in at least one layer located on the emulsion layer side one or more of an additive selected from among: (1) surface active agents having a solubility of 0.005 wt % or more at 30 DEG C. in a developer and a surface tension of 45 dyne/cm or less (measured at 30 DEG C. in a condition of 1.0 wt % aqueous solution), and (2) polymers represented by the following general formula (I), and having a molecular weight of from 2,000 to 500,000: -X)x(Y)y(I) wherein X represents a residue of an acrylamide monomer, and Y represents a residue of a monomer other than X, which can undergo copolymerization with X, and these monomers each may be a mixture of two or more thereof; x represents a fraction of 70 to 100 mol %, and y represents a fraction of 30 to 0 mol %, and wherein development processing is completed within 15 seconds. |