I find that the ink they use on BP these days does not last that long.
So, if you want to keep the BP for your "collection", from now on, you might need to get onto the phtocopying of them as well as keeping the original.
Yeah, you can go to one of them chest high thing, scan your QF card and you get printed out a BP.
The pole thing will scan your QF card and issue a small tear off chit.
I think too that a lot of the dom check in counters have been removed from QFd MEL and SYD airports, its all serve yourself these days.
Remember years ago, the QFd SYD airport check in area used to have a lot of counters, now, a lot of it or all gone, replaced with bag drop off, yes, also serve yourself.
These days, I do OLCI and scan my QF card with the bar codes at the gate.
I don't do paper BP anymore, except when travelling to NZ. I have two EK BP, freshly printed, they were black, now, not come to a few months after the flight, its starting to fade!
I hope you get an "older 767" or a nice new modern 330 for your flight OP, and not a lousy 737.
I hate the narrow 737s.
A lot of people dont care if its narrow or wide body planes they fly on, but I do care.
I have made many bookings with QF, and was going to be QF PS, but with the enchancements post Jul 14, I think I am stuck with NB (Bronze) with QF for the rest of my life!
Try to get a window seat, and hope for (as I mentioned) a wide bodied plane, and a long wheel along the taxi ways, and by ways, before the final rush on down the runway, I find if the they give you a wide bodied, the take off over Botany Bay, with your right facing Brighton Le Sands, and left facing the oil storage place, and then the plane makes a right turn, is the most exciting one.
The wide bodied, when the plane makes a turn over the sea, wow, you have to feel it. Quasy feeling, as it can be quite a sharp turn, bravo to the QF/VA pilots who do it!
Personally, I would do OLCI, and then go to the counter to get the BP. Save your seat profile on your QF account now though, ie, Window.
Runway 34L/34R (and turn)... best.
Runway 16L/16R, not bad, but over land.
Runway thats adjacent to the Cross tunnel runway, while not as dramatic as the sea one, will do if they give you that.
Sorry for the long windedness.
I too love flights.