1931 National Lithographer Feb. 27/2 It was determined to study first the factors causing misregister.

1949 R. F. Reed What Lithographer should know about Paper (Lithographic Techn. Foundation, N.Y., Techn. Bull. No. 8) 50 While misregister in the ordinary sense never occurs until two or more colors have been printed, it is obvious that improper printing of the first color may be..the real cause of register trouble.

1970 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 320 244 The misregister which occurs in a coincidence lattice occasions an energy penalty.

1990 Brit. Printer Nov. 57/4 A hand-held automatic register control device which records misregister and then transfers this information to the press.

1920 Indianapolis Star 2 Nov. 9/1 He had been misregistered by the local election board officials.

1969 G. L. Hansen Introd. Solid-state Television Syst. xi. 265 It is imperative that the optical alignment of the light paths be precise. If they are not, the reproduced color image will be misregistered. That is, each image will not be located at exactly the same point on the camera tube..and a blurred presentation will result.

1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 278 If a line is misregistered irregularly, that is, if some characters are high, others low, etc., then line registration is bypassed in favor of character registration.

1979 Slavic Rev. 38 411 Mine owners were threatened with a fine of one hundred silver rubles for each soul thus misregistered.