IME boarding passes for Ryanair printed at the airport are printed on traditional airline card stock (and usually by contractors, not Ryanair proper), based on a &#x27;standard&#x27; design.<p>Ryanair wants the primary boarding pass to be one that everyone brings with them. In that case they have a lot more flexibility. So long as they use a PDF-417 code and it fits into one of those little barcode scanners they could design it pretty much any way they wanted.