Boarding cards.
It seems to be deliberate Ryanair policy to prevent one
printing the boarding card more than 14 days before flight.
Why ? Perhaps to allow time for it to get lost.
Incidentally it is not necessarily all that easy to print
a pass in a foreign hotel. I have been in that situation,
ie 8th floor room, laptop computer and hotel printer in
the lobby does not want to work. Staff behind the desk have no idea why and no-one else available.
Depending where the lady was staying internet cafe's are not that common in Alicante.
Still I remember some of my business training
"The main cause of failure is greed".
Anyway why does one need a boarding pass these days,
as you print it yourself it does not actually prove anything
much, except perhaps that you have printer. I much prefer
the method of putting the appropriate Credit or Airline card
into a machine and it prints the card for you.