Elaborate item printers get wrong (12)
I believe the answer is:
misinterpret
'get wrong' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'elaborate item printers' is the wordplay.
'elaborate' is an anagram indicator (an elaborate version of the letters).
'item'+'printers'='itemprinters'
'itemprinters' with letters rearranged gives 'MISINTERPRET'.
(Other definitions for misinterpret that I've seen before include "Take the wrong way" , "get wrong" , "Read wrongly" , "Fail to understand" , "Wrongly understand" .)