Meaning of printo | Babel Free

Definitions

An error made during printing.

rare, slang

Examples

“I can see why it would be tempting to treat a smart printer controller as a special case: the data is going onto paper and will never be seen by software again; if the user sees a printo on the paper, he can have it re-printed.”

“Most *English* calendars you have seen, I suppose. In Germany there is no such possible calendar. If you printed a calendar that way, it would be considered a printo. The same is true in most parts of the continent.”

“"I was informed by the doctor that the marshes here are still malarial, and the mosquitoes believed to have put paid to the thriving Greek colony of antiquity, as active as ever." ¶ Put paid? Might be a printo (but if it was, what was intended isn't clear), but I'm thinking I'm just having a brain fart.”

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