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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