This is not a fault of the printer, it is merely the RIP telling you that you have fed it too much data. This stretching we do to simulate a hand-made rollout camera and to show you the problems if you use trial and error. Your images will be distorted. The distortion may be only 5% or 10% but you can see the distortion clearly in many published images. You can eliminate the distortion if you have an on-board calculator (such as the 70mm film-based rollout cameras made in Belgium). You still have a soft focus (a result of the moving image and moving film) but you have an image of correct proportions.
Why is it important to get correct proportions? If you are a scholar you need to see the precise style, and proportion is part of that style. A distorted rollout distorts the style. Thus it is helpful to re-photograph the vases that were distorted by earlier hand-made rollout cameras. Now that computer-controlled cameras are available there is no need to depend on trial and error.
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