We explain what a misprint is in the publishing world, its function and various examples. Also, what is a faith of errors.
Including a misprint allows you to avoid reprinting an entire document.What is a misprint?
In the publishing world, a misprint is an inadvertent mistake made in a printed document or book that can no longer be corrected or avoided. The term comes from the Latin erratum, "error". The only way to solve it, then, is through a corrected edition. In it, these errors are solved and identified through a misprint.
In addition, the errata can be an addition to an already printed work, such as an offprint or an additional sheet, in which errors made in the edition are identified and explained, since some very complex or voluminous documents are reprinted. it would be too expensive and cumbersome.
In both cases, the errors that are clarified in a misprint should be specific details and corrections, not significant changes in the body of the work or the document, such as spelling errors, punctuation, wrong author references (such as a year wrong) or other minor editing defects. Much more important or profound changes, on the other hand, would merit a reworking of the text.
Errata are an important resource (rather a necessary evil) in the publishing world, as they allow the reader to be alerted to errors made in the book's manufacture, without having to incur production costs again.
Examples of errata
Some examples of errata were the following:
- In the New York Times of January 7, 2015, an errata was published regarding a published article in which instead of the name Kyrgyzstan, they used that of “Kirzbekistan”, a non-existent nation.
- In the English newspaper The Guardian of January 28, 2015, an errata was published regarding an article in which the omission of a hyphen (which in English operates as a comma in Spanish to separate ideas) suggested that the ancients Philistines had been attacked by "wild sheep and goat herding tribes."
- In the American newspaper The Economist of February 8, 2014, a humorous errata was published regarding the date on which the newspaper supported, by putting it on its front page, the legalization of marijuana (it was in 1988 and not in 1993, as Was published). The editors added a joke at the end of the typo: "Who says drug use doesn't damage long-term memory?"
Errata or error certificate
A mistake is not the same as a mistake. The latter term is used in journalistic jargon to refer to errors in the information transmitted in a media In print, that is, false, wrong or imprecise information from the past, which is usually clarified in the current edition in a column next to the letters to the editor.
This difference, however, is not widely known, and in many cases you can see the use of "errata" rather than "errata" in newspapers and print publications.