Printing a Ryan Air boarding pass without black ink

rhapsodyangel

I'm not sure where to put this, or if this is 'new' information for anyone, but I had never tried it before and it may help someone out.

I ran out of black ink in my printer late at night, just before my flight. So I photoshopped the boarding pass so that it was a dark navy colour all over, and had to override my printer trying to stop printing without black ink, which just involved pressing OK on the printer as per the alert instructions.

To turn the boarding pass navy, put the document into Photoshop. Create a new layer and fill it with darkish/medium navy blue (very dark didn't work, I guess that needs black ink) using the paint bucket tool. Select the original layer and change the layer type from Normal to Screen. Put the original layer above the blue layer. It should turn all the black bits blue without any manual faffing.

And it works. Ryan Air can scan blue barcodes, and it's close enough to black to not look weird or raise attention.

merit_mark_2

If only Ryanair would not include several adverts which print with wasteful heavy black ink on the boarding pass :-(