PYOBP - anyone else noticed that the Barcodes are much smaller now?
Mar 27, 2014, 5:50 pm
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PYOBP - anyone else noticed that the Barcodes are much smaller now?
OK, hardly a big thing and a first world issue but I used PYOBP for the first time in ages and saw the barcode is now much smaller than it used to be.
Thinking I had made a printing error/mistake I reprinted it. Same thing happened again. I then printed it at 150% of the size and saw that there was very little difference in the actual size of the barcode.
I hear through the grapevine that this change happened a few weeks ago but it's entirely normal now to see such smaller barcodes.
As BA changed this and I have some wasted A4 paper I demand compensation
Thinking I had made a printing error/mistake I reprinted it. Same thing happened again. I then printed it at 150% of the size and saw that there was very little difference in the actual size of the barcode.
I hear through the grapevine that this change happened a few weeks ago but it's entirely normal now to see such smaller barcodes.
As BA changed this and I have some wasted A4 paper I demand compensation
Mar 27, 2014, 6:21 pm
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I have 20/20 vision thanks to Laser Eye Surgery and my SOH I suppose is an acquired taste honed over many years although we are all very different in that repsect 
HIDDY has a few years left in him yet so you will have to wait a while for that to happen
Back on topic, these smaller barcodes apparently changed a few weeks ago.
Mar 28, 2014, 3:45 am
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Actually, this caused a problem at gatwick recently, where the pyobp was not accepted at premium security because the machine couldn't read it, and we had to go back to get a bp printed at the desk. Kind of defeated the purpose of pyobp and premium security, having to queue up twice.
Mar 28, 2014, 11:13 am
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OK, hardly a big thing and a first world issue but I used PYOBP for the first time in ages and saw the barcode is now much smaller than it used to be.
Thinking I had made a printing error/mistake I reprinted it. Same thing happened again. I then printed it at 150% of the size and saw that there was very little difference in the actual size of the barcode.
I hear through the grapevine that this change happened a few weeks ago but it's entirely normal now to see such smaller barcodes.
As BA changed this and I have some wasted A4 paper I demand compensation
Thinking I had made a printing error/mistake I reprinted it. Same thing happened again. I then printed it at 150% of the size and saw that there was very little difference in the actual size of the barcode.
I hear through the grapevine that this change happened a few weeks ago but it's entirely normal now to see such smaller barcodes.
As BA changed this and I have some wasted A4 paper I demand compensation
Mar 28, 2014, 11:18 am
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I've had a problem once or twice when printer settings were fouled up, and the BP didn't scan correctly. Never been sent back to print another.
This is a good reason to also have an e-boarding pass. Belt and suspenders.
This is a good reason to also have an e-boarding pass. Belt and suspenders.
