Fink Roslieve (F.R) Colour Print Process
Information on this colour print process has been extracted by Michael Talbert from the book “Colour Prints” by Jack Coote, the revised edition published in February 1963 by Focal Press.

The 'F.R' colour printing process was a revised and simplified form of the Pakolor process, marketed in the USA by the F.R. Corporation, New York 56, USA.
The F.R. Corporation commercialised this process by selling 'FR Color Negative Film' (see below, right), colour printing paper and print processing chemicals to amateur photographers. It is not known which of these items (if any) the F.R. Corporation actually manufactured themselves.

Michael found various errors within the processing sequence printed in Jack Coote's book, presumably taken directly from F.R. Corporation literature e.g. in the column headed 'Total min. at end of step', the length of time was printed as '385' minutes. This is believed to refer to the total processing sequence time and should have read 38minutes, a time which seems feasible at the highest processing temperature - see Note 4, below.

The reference to the F.R. Process in Jack Coote's books are the only ones found by Michael, apart from an advertisement in the American 'Popular Photography' magazine (not the UK version of this title), as shown here. Going by the date of the publication of these books (1963 and 1968), it could be assumed that the process was in use by (mostly) American amateurs from the late 1950s to the first half of the 1960s.

Opposite: An advertisement for 'F.R. Color Negative Film' published in the American magazine 'Popular Photography' in August 1963. It mentions an 'F.R. Negative Color Film' processing kit using four solutions and 'F.R. Color Print Paper' for three bath enlargements. It is very likely that Color Print Paper was processed in the processing sequence published in 'Colour Prints' by Jack Coote (see below).

The F.R. Color Negative film may have been very similar to the unmasked Agfacolor negative film CN-17 which was the same speed and being unmasked, was suitable for black and white prints and colour prints (as claimed for the FR film). The F.R. Film advert claims "Shoot anywhere (ASA 40) in any light". If If pictures could be taken “in any light”, the film must have had a colour temperature sensitivity of about 4,500 °Kelvin, approximately between daylight and tungsten light, identical to Agfacolor CN 17 colour negative film. Colour corrections for differently balanced lighting conditions were then made at the printing stage.

The F.R. Print Process, presumably for dish processing.

Step	Solution	Time (mins)	Temp (°F)
1.	Developer	5	70 (=21.1°C)
2.	Rinse	5	68 - 75
3.	Color Fixer	3	70
White light may be turned on.
4.	Rinse	5	68 - 75
5.	Color-Bleach	10	70
6.	Wash	15	68 - 75
7.	Dry. Prints must be dried and resoaked before ferrotyping.

Total time excluding drying: 43 minutes.

Notes:

1. The process will tolerate a wide range of temperature variation from 68 – 75°F. The instruction manual gives data on processing times for different temperatures.
2. Running water should be used in steps 2, 4 and 6.
3. Step 5 is printed as it is in J. Coote’s book, but is thought should read 'Bleach-Fixer'.
4. The total time, as given in the processing sequence for processing a print at 70°F (as in the table above) was 43 minutes. A rough guess at the total time for processing a print at the highest temperature permissible, 75°F, would be around 38 minutes, + or – 2 or 3 minutes. This would have been a considerable saving of time when compared to the Pakolor Print process where the total time for processing a print was 61 minutes at 68°F (Developer) and 64 – 70°F for the other solutions and washing steps.
5. As there was no Stabilizer, Anti-Fade or any sort of Hardening solution after the last wash. It is likely that only cold ferrotyping or glazing was advisable.

J. Coote mentions the F.R. process again in his next book “Colour Prints” published in 1968, third revised edition. He says:

“The colour paper marketed by Paterson is a direct descendant of earlier papers devised and manufactured by Dr. Kurt Jacobson. The earlier version of the paper and the process were first handled by Pakolor and later by the 'F.R. Corporation' before being taken over by Pavelle. The paper is now known as Paterson Colour Paper and is being distributed by Johnsons of Hendon.”

It seems the chronology of the Pakolor, F.R and Pavelle papers went as follows:

Pakolor paper 1952.
Pakolor FC paper 1956.
F.R. paper about 1960.
Pavelle paper 1962.
Paterson Colour paper 1966.

As far as is known, F.R. paper was never sold in the UK.