Oriental Photo Industrial was founded in 1919 offering the first line photographic photosensitive materials in Japan. As Oriental's product line expanded to; Rapid Portrait Film Plate (1928), 120 roll film (1934), Monochrome ORI-Pan S film (1950), and the first ORICOLOR color negative film (1953), Orin Color Roll Printer (1966), Color Paper RC (1973), NEW Seagull Graded "G" (1980), Hyper Seagull Black & White and Sepia (1998), and Inkjet and LaserJet Paper (2001). Oriental began exporting to other world markets in 1921, rapidly gaining market share with its innovative products.

In 1962 Oriental won the Japanese Industrial Science and Technology Agency's award as Japan's Elite Factory, one of the many prestigious awards bestowed upon Oriental over the years. Oriental has prided itself as the industry leader of high quality photographic products since it's inception.

Oriental's reputation has grown with Professional Photographers and Professional Labs as the highest quality black & white papers available. Photographers like Ansel Adams have sworn to the incredible tones, contrast, and highlights of Oriental's paper. With the recent advancements in the New Seagull and Hyper Seagull papers Oriental has again reached new levels of product performance far superior to any other products in the market place.

To keep abreast with the current digital printers Oriental is developing lines of inkjet papers, wide format inkjet papers, and LaserJet papers with similar image quality to it's photographic papers.