noun
definition
An accidental mistake in print.
example
When I wrote to you saying "You're going to catch a cod if you spend all night fishing", there was a misprint. I meant to say "You're going to catch a cold."
verb
definition
To make a misprint.
example
I misprinted his name on the invitation. He's called James, not Jambes.
Examples of misprints in a Sentence
I spotted few misprints, tho Maud Gleason's name is twice misspelt on p. 12.
The reason I am writing is to pose the question if there are other misprints of which we are unaware?
My first booklet had 28 major misprints which is pretty good going for sixteen pages.
As a minor caveat I did find numerous misprints in the book, some of which were material errors.
The stylistic peculiarities of the original have been retained, but obvious misprints corrected.
I have come across a few misprints, miraculously few in a book of this size, and completely trivial.
The main instance of the latter is the 1990 Joint Session paper, regrettably part of a volume which contains numerous misprints throughout.
As a source for the text it is superseded by the printed edition, and if there is more than one, then by the latest printed edition, which has been revised in proof by the author, or, in certain cases, by his representative; and the task of the textual critic is restricted to the detection of "misprints," in other words, of errors which the compositor (the modern analogue to the scribe) has made in "setting up" the manuscript, and which have escaped the notice of the proof-reader and the author or his representative.