Printo

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An error made during printing. rare, slang

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From print + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).

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