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You wouldn’t think that the lack of printer ink in your printer could lead to you being refused from checking in for your flight . . . would you?

However, this wasn’t the case for one poor tourist who was stopped by Ryanair because the ink on her boarding pass was considered too faint!

Sue Craig who had paid an extra £10 to obtain an online boarding pass for a flight to Malaga, proceeded to print this out on her home computer, but on arrival at the Airport she was told that the barcode on her pass failed to scan.

She was sent to a customer services desk where there was a enormous queue, the result she missed the flight and lost her ticket and airport parking, the Daily Mail reported.

"The copy of the boarding pass I printed out was clean and crisp and bold and why it was unable to scan I don't know. The guy tried to scan it a couple of times before he told me the ink was too faint," she claimed.

"My printer at home is only six months old and the ink cartridge inside it is brand new."

So the moral of this story is ensure your printer is in tip top condition if you are using it to print out important documents and check it out for yourself if you have a scanner or photo copier to see whether the print all shows clearly.

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