ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys what is new in the art and science of gumoil photography. Gumoil is forgiving and the tiny lines and dots associated with digitally-rendered images are dissolved in the gumoil process. The chapter describes what the author use and have found satisfactory for the purpose of making enlarged positive images printed on either plastic or paper which then serve adequately as interpositives for the gumoil process. A good image, strongly printed in black and white, on regular computer paper, can be contact printed to make a gumoil image equal to one which comes from a conventionally enlarged photographic film sheet developed in a darkroom. Although Platinum and Silver printing from the negatives requires very high resolution, alternative processes such as Vandyke, Cyanotype, and conventional Gum Bichromate can easily be made in high quality editions from ordinary computer generated images.
