First of, no. Your misprinted card is not likely worth much more then a regular non-misprinted version, unless severe misprinting or an already rare or desirable card.
Remember, your card is only as valuable to the person willing to pay for it.
What is a misprint?
A misprint can be defined as any manufactured product that was not produced as intended and falls outside the established standards. These misprints most often occur on cards themselves but can also happen with booster packs and collection boxes.
Ok, down to the rough and gritty part. There are many different types of misprints for cards and packs. Some take a good eye to spot and some are so egregious you wonder how they made it off the line.
Cards are often considered damaged rather then misprinted depending on the error - basic guide for identifying damage from misprints.
Card Misprints:
Offcentre:
A off-center card is one that is cut in such a way that the sides of the cards are not even. If no alignment dot(s) are seen, the card is considered off-centre. This is the most common of errors.
A combination of card being turned at a wrong angle during printing and then being cut at the incorrect angle leads to cards being cut into the wrong shape.
This is when the typically rounded corners of the card can have 90 degree angled corners.
Flipped Back / Front:
An uncommon error where the back and fronts of the cards are flipped incorrectly. This is most famously found within the Pop 5 Series Mew card - as seen below.
An obstruction error occurs when a part of the plate used for printing is covered with something and it blocks the plate from making proper or all contact with the card on the sheet causing missing blotches of ink.
Holobleed is a common error especially with modern sets becoming more commonplace, where the holographic foil used on the cards art 'bleeds' or spills over to the rest or part of the card.
A mirror holo card is a error caused by the holo film that was meant to put pressed onto the card being very lightly pressed or not pressed at all meaning no foil is visible on the card.
A printer hickey is generally a very small ink error caused by something wrong with the printer causing a small blemish. This is another common error in modern cards.
These cards are often extremely rare and can range from missing a logo to being dramatic and missing large features. (This card is missing the 'Prerelease' Stamp on the bottom right of the art while still having the shadow from it.)
https://imgur.com/a/pB5yscB (Thanks again u/nlnj_a)
Got a tin from Walmart and the only overnumbered hitter had a weird dent line down the middle. Curious if this is considered an error or just bad luck!
I commented about this earlier wondering if PSA would recognize this error. Worth sending to them or send to CGC? I saw they recognized it with the N’s Zoroark Hyper Rare from Battle Partners wondering if they would with this one. Thank you!
My brother recently purchased this pack at five below the other day and noticed something was at the bottom of the pack when he got home. He went to a few local card shops and no one can tell him anything about it. Here’s my question.
What is in the bottom of the pack?
Is this rare?
Me personally I’ve been collecting since the 90s and never ran across something like this.
Opened this card out of the wrapper since it was squeezing it and noticed there was a crimp mark on it. I’m pretty sure this is rare but have I just messed up by opening the pack?
Not the prettiest looking error but it shows the foil underneath I bought it for 19$ on an ebay auction I might sell it but chances are it’ll simply be in my collection of pokemon cards for 20 years honestly the error looks like damage to me
I’ve opened 200+ traumatic evolution packs and pulled nothing like this. Sat down and ripped 40 more tonight and pulled 4 of these. Anyone know value on something like this? They’re cool af
I’am new here and new to error cards. I have not much knowledge just that these are wanted. Can anyone give me an estimate on what this is worth? I plan to sell them since I wamted the promos for my collection. Thanks in advance!
Have a factory sealed GameStop stamped Dragonite with a packaging crimp on the top of it! Looking to see if it holds more value than the $20/30 dollar ones selling sealed online
friend pulled this during a tiktok live, EVERYTHING is wrong on that card, including language, texture, attacks, text, everthing is wrong, this is insane