FORTE

FORTE B/W PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS

FORTE PHOTOCHEMICAL INDUSTRY produces a very wide range of b/w photographic papers, which are very popular among the amateur and professional photographers for their excellent photo graphical properties, as well as for keeping their good quality even under most different storing and processing conditions.
The photopapers are equally to be used for enlarging and contact pririting and are suitable for dish and machine processing as well.
Regarding physical properties, their choice includes a wide range of surfaces made on baryta coated and resin coated paper base, their presentation includes all usual units of sale in different sheet and roll sizes. Regarding photographical properties, our offer iiicludes photopapers of quite different speed and image tone, types in 5 contrast grades from soft to extra hard, as well as Poly grade papers of variable contrast.

The choice of b/w photographic papers:
 

Denomination	Type marking	Paper base
BROMOFORT  FORTEZO  PORTUREX RAPID  VERDITA  FORTESPEED  PORTUREX SPEED  FORTESPEED POLYGRADE  FORTE POLYGRADE	B  F  PR  V  FP  P  FPG  PG	baryta coated  baryta coated  baryta coated  baryta coated  resin coated  resin coated  resin coated  baryta coated

Gradation code:
 

Soft  Special  Normal  Hard  Extra-hard  Variable contrast

S  SP  N  H  EH

- red label  - orange label  - green label  - blue label  - brown label  - violet label

Code of paper base, tint, surface texture:
 

0  1  2  4  5  8  8WL  10  l3WL

- single weight  - medium weight  - medium weight  - double weight  - double weight  - double weight  - double weight  - double weight  - double weight

baryta coated  resin coated  resin coated  baryta coated  baryta coated  baryta coated  baryta coated  baryta coated  baryta coated

white  white  white  white  white  white  white  white  white

glossy  glossy  semimat  glossy  semimat  semimat  lustre  mat  lustre

smooth  smooth  smooth  smooth  smooth  finegrain  finegrain  smooth  silk-grain

Relative speed of b/w papers: 

	Soft	Special	Normal	Hard	E-Hard
BROMOFORT FORTEZO PORTUREX-RAPID VERDITA FORTESPEED PORTUREX-SPEED FORTE-POLYGRADE* FORTESPEED-POLYGRADE*	10 15 - - 8 15 10-15 10-15	10 - - - - - 10-15 10-15	10 15 12 3000 8 15 10-15 10-15	15 25 - - 10 25 16-20 16-20	40 - - - - - 20-30 20-30

 * exposed with different Filter systems
     
The above values of relative speed of b/w papers, as given se parately for each type of product, are to be understood in relation to the exposure time in seconds of BROMOFORT normal grade paper, necessary to obtain right prints under identical exposure conditions and with the same negative material.      

Handling and processing:
Handling and processing of FORTE b/w photopapers should be done by an indirect darkroom safelight fitted with a filter as in dicated for each type of product separately. The papers can be processed in any usual b/w paper developer.