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Many European railways now offer the option of printing your ticket at home in A4 size PDF format when booking via their website (indeed that (or downloading the ticket onto your smartphone or tablet) is often the only way to avoid postage charges.

Does anyone know if any countries have a rule against printing tickets on the back of a piece of scrap paper, as long as there is nothing already printed on the side on which you print your ticket? Do any train operators insist that it must be printed on a fresh sheet of paper?

I posted a query about this on the online forum on the DB website, and DB tells me that it doesn't matter in Germany: all that matters is that nothing is already printed on the side on which you print your ticket, and that the barcode is legible so ticket inspectors can scan it.
 
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In my experience so long as the reference/barcode/QR code is legible there shouldn't be a problem. May I ask why you can't print on a fresh sheet of A4 paper?
 
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It must be clearly legible-certainly the square barcode and your name, obviously, in A4 format (not smaller or larger) and on white paper. Ive seen many people with double sided prints (f.e. for returns), so if you can mange that its OK.
f.e. from Oebb/Austria you can choose to have it home print or let their machines have it done for you. In fact this is also possible with many such DB/german tickets. But those from MAV/HU-INTernational cannot be done as homeprint and must be collected-BR/ATOC style, from their machines-thus preventing this for using to travel INto HU with them. NMBS/belgian domestic ones can even be loaded on their local smart ID-cards.
If protecting the trees in the forest is your objective-then use the smartyfone obviously, saves even more.
 
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gazthomas said:
In my experience so long as the reference/barcode/QR code is legible there shouldn't be a problem. May I ask why you can't print on a fresh sheet of A4 paper?
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It's not that I can't use a fresh sheet of paper, but using scrap paper obviously saves paper.
 
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