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printo

printo noun: an error made during printing.

Noun

printo (plural printos)

  1. (rare, slang) An error made during printing.
    • 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.1993 June 29, Tom Fitzgerald, “RFC 1191 compliance”, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet)
    • 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.2001 March 14, Jim Mercer, quoting Peter Eisentraut, “[HACKERS] Re: Week number”, in muc.lists.postgres.questions (Usenet)

Forms of printo

pluralprintos

Origin of printo

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

Questions about printo

What does printo mean?
Printo means an error made during printing.
What part of speech is printo?
Printo is a noun.
What is the plural of printo?
The plural of printo is printos.

Words near printo in the dictionary

  1. printline
  2. printlines
  3. printmaker
  4. printmakers
  5. printmaking
  6. printo
  7. printoff
  8. printoffs
  9. printout
  10. printouts
  11. printress

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