Method for developing a silver halide color photographic light- sensitive material for color proof using a specified color developing agent

摘要

A method of preparing a color proof from a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and a black-and-white halftone dot image is disclosed, wherein said light-sensitive material has on a support the photographic component layers including silver halide emulsion layers each having different spectral sensitivities, and one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprises a magenta coupler represented by Formula M-I; ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of non- metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring including a substituted one; X represents one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a group capable of splitting off upon a reaction with an oxidized product of a developer; and R represents one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a substituent. The method comprises the steps of:PPexposing said light- sensitive material through said halftone dot image, and,PP developing said exposed light-sensitive material in a developing solution containing a developer represented by Formula (III) in a ratio of not less than 55 mol % to total developers, to form at least a magenta image comprising &lgr;.sub.L0.2 of a spectral absorption in a wavelength region of 580 to 635 nm; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 represent independently an alkyl group, provided that R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 may be same or different and combine with each other to form a ring.