Town fans can now print their Portman Road match tickets from their own PCs via the Blues’ new Print at Home initiative which goes live today.

Supporters buying tickets online can now select the Print at Home option which will see them receive an email including a PDF of each of their tickets.

The home-printed tickets will contain the same barcode which is included on tickets produced by the Ticket Office.

The new scheme means that web ticket sales will now be left open much nearer to kick off time with fans no longer having to wait for their tickets to arrive in the post or having to queue for collection. Town are one of the first clubs to offer the service.

Ticket Office manager John Ford said: "This initiative will make life much easier for supporters as they won’t now need to wait for tickets to arrive in the post or queue up on match days.

“The access system is totally secure which means that any barcode generated, whether that is on a match ticket, a season ticket or on the Print at Home ticket, can only be used once, much like the technology that many supporters may have already come across when flying abroad."

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MaySixth added 10:08 - Oct 13 Good idea - always annoying queing up to get tickets at the ground when you have already bought.
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MaySixth added 10:09 - Oct 13 One thing though - I actually like to keep my physical tickets as a reminder of games gone by. I presume you will not actually have a physical ticket this way just a sheet of A4.
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JimmyJazz added 10:28 - Oct 13 Before long there won't be the need for a ticket office
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dirtyboy added 10:40 - Oct 13 Will you be able to simply .pdf the ticket to screen on an iPhone or similar device and shove the iPhone under the barcode scanner? Save the trees etc lol!
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JewellintheTown added 10:42 - Oct 13 It'll be while befroe ticket offices disappear - or if they do, they'll be replaced by tech support. Takes decades for non techies to not do the stupidest of things without someone there to hold their hands. Good idea in principle though, it will be great for those who understand technology, but the non technical will end up with problems for a while. I bet someone will print it out on their inkjet printer, get it wet, then try and scan the smudged ink printout and wonder why it wont work. Good on Town for helping pioneer it though, hope its not designed by the guys who put the IT systems into the NHS or police force though.

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clive_baker added 10:51 - Oct 13 Presumably this reduces the clubs cost of sales so does this mean the booking fee for booking online is reduced accordingly?
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blueoff added 11:08 - Oct 13 Good idea,this is something I already do all the time for west end shows, hotels & transport
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itfc1981 added 11:09 - Oct 13 Well we know Chopra wont be playing against Cardiff at home in the new year.
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PhilTWTD added 12:28 - Oct 13 dirtyboy The Ticket Office say that the scanning of mobile telephones still has some technology problems with different types of screens so this remains as a future development clive_baker Online booking fee has been reduced to nothing. itfc1981 Some license have been taken re Chopra being on the ticket!
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Dissblue added 12:50 - Oct 13 Are they going to drop the admin. fee then?
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SouperJim added 13:28 - Oct 13 Phil: what about on my kindle's e-ink screen!?
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PhilTWTD added 13:30 - Oct 13 SouperJim Erm...I'll get back to you!
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itfc1981 added 13:51 - Oct 13 Phil Sarcasm does not become you. :)
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Karl_Fuller added 20:10 - Oct 13 Great Stuff! The only thing that needs to be sorted out now is for Season Ticket holders to be able to buy their family and friends tickets for £10 on-line for the Crystal Palace game. When I tried to get two on-line last night, I was still being charged £26.00 each. So I guess I will still need to phone the ticket office for these???
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Greybritain added 08:46 - Oct 14 You still have to pay 50p as a web booking fee though. This can be seen in the picture above. So, I have to pay the club for printing out my own ticket. What a leap forward that is.
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