printer's error

American  

noun

1. an error introduced into typeset copy by the compositor, so that the printer cannot charge for correcting it. p.e, p.e.

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Example Sentences

Even if it’s not a printer’s error or a truncation, fat might not mean what we think it means.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2015

Of course, no one would try to spend a $7.6 million coin, or mail a letter with one of those postage stamps made famous by a printer’s error.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2014

When the song was published in 1907, a printer's error had given him a new name: I. Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

First, a printer's error boosted the price on the cover to 60�.

From Time Magazine Archive

Page 20, potential printer's error, properly for property, 'but this properly they have'.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo