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Jorge --
Thanks. You obviously see what I enjoy about gum. It's far from a representational print form because random color crossover effects and blemished textures abound, but a good print can have a curiously satisfactory 'crude subtlety' that I like a lot. Unfortunately, as I said in my statement, good prints are very rare in my experience, but that makes the keepers all the more enjoyable.
I've always worked with RGB separation negatives which, of course, makes the pigments CMY. The initial trouble is that the available pigment colors aren't good complements of the separation filters, so real color fidelity is out of the question. Also, the nature of the process almost guarantees dirty highlights, and really good blacks are not possible with CMY alone, so printing is a prolonged balancing act with disaster always threatening.
That said, if less than photographic "realism" is satisfactory, gum is not difficult; in fact, simple monochromatic prints are quite easy to make.
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