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Silver salt photographic materials consist of up to 15 layers containing gelatine that are coated onto film or paper. Here gelatine acts as a binding agent for light-sensitive silver halides. Due to their swelling properties, the developing agents can penetrate the layers and be removed again by watering. Gelatine is an important component for this complex layer technique. It has the ability to form a solution during heating that sets to a gel again on cooling down and can be kept after water removal. Gelatine’s properties are needed to produce photographic materials such as amateur films, colour paper, graphic films and X-ray films, in industrial volumes.
Gelatine is also indispensable for digital photography. The ink-jet printer paper coated with gelatine guarantees brilliant colours and clear shapes. This results in prints of the highest quality.
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