Agfa SnapScan 1212p

Advantages: Cheap, parallel port, fast and friendly service, good software included.
Disadvantages: Erm, haven't found any yet, except the OCR (text editing) software was hard to setup properly.

The Agfa Snapscan 1212p is my first scanner and what an excellent choice I made! The p stands for parallel port, such as your printer port. For those of us who are not lucky enough to have USB connections as our computers are not exactly upto date enough for this sort of technology finding a cheap parallel port scanner has become increasingly difficult. As far as I can tell Argos now do not do a parallel port scanner and Office World has expensive ...
...one I chose was the Agfa Snapscan, refurbished Grade B scanner. Grade B means that it may be slightly damaged, such as a scratch or small mark. I cannot even see why it is a grade B as there is nothing wrong with it that I can see. I rang them up and spoke to a friendly member of staff who told me about the scanner and I got the address to send them a cheque. The delivery fee for my scanner was £10. I posted the cheque and within 2 days the scanner ... Read review

Advantages: so easy to use
Disadvantages: my first one was broken on arrival

...would give good results. The AGFA scanner was recommended to me - it isn't too expensive (about thrity pounds, depending on whom you buy it from) it is easy to use, and it plugs in in such a way that you can run your printer at the same time. Now, I've not had a scanner before, so I knew nothing about the possibility of having to unplug and plug it in, and do the same with the printer - I gather this is not unusual. For a person of little technical ...
...it, will certainly go abck to AGFA (although through some other middle man!) I woudl recomend this product for anyoen new to this sort of thing, and for anyone who doesn't want to do anything outrageously complucated. This scanner can handle any obvious scanning needs, and produces good quality images. ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, adequate for email/web sites, maybe other applictaions as well
Disadvantages: No driver available for Win2000

The 1212p (the 'p' stands for parallel port version) is getting quite and old piece of kit now and can therefore be picked up relatively cheaply ( try www.morgancomputers.co.uk for instance). But a bargain is only a bargain if it performs the tasks you require. I purchased this scanner almost a year ago and have been using it to scan photos and articles to send via email and place on the web - this does not require a very high resolution and accurate ...
...it was a bonus that the 1212p has a resonably good resolution and produces accurate colour reproduction (at least on my monitor!). I have scanned photos in at digital-photo printing quality (300dpi) and it performs well at this resolution. The quality of the scans are high, but the speed to produce them isn't amazing - my father has a canon scanner of a similar resolution and makes mine seem like a snail! The speed isn't too annoying if you only ... Read review

Advantages: Good price and good functionality
Disadvantages: The scanner must be on when you boot up your computer if you've got Windows 95

All in all a very good scanner and a load of good sofware to go with it. Now when people say this scanner isn't fast, what are they comparing it to because it goes at a nice standard speed. Of course the speed at which a scanner scans something depends generally on two things: what you are scanning and at what resolution you are scanning it. If you don't understand the concept of picture resolution I'll quickly explain it now. The scanner will scan ...
...that are referred to when talking about resolution. The resolution you scan something is basically the number of these dots per inch (dpi) you want the scanner to scan. Therefore the higher the dpi of the thing you want to scan the longer the scanner will take to scan because it is having to scan the picture in more detail. As I've said the SNAPSCAN 1212 is just a standard scanner, but at a good competitive price. The benifits of this scanner include ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to use, easy to install and very good quality scanned pictures
Disadvantages: Needs to be switched on before you boot up your computer or it may not function as it should

...Jungle.com and came across the Agfa snapscan 1212p flat bed scanner for the price of £81 and decided to get that one as it sounded good and had quite a bundle of software included in the price, such as page keeper, print house, a few others and ofcourse their installation software for the scanner (Scanwise). I am not sure if it still comes with the same software as it was almost a year ago that we got ours, so it may pay to check around if you are ...
...after making the order to Jungle the scanner came so we installed it soon after (you know whats its like new toy) which was very easy to do. Then came the fun, on using it I found it to scan relatively quickly and fairly quite. The scaned pictures can be scanned at your choice of resolution and to a destination of your choice, ie folders, emailed, optimized for web pages, sent to your printer to print image etc. The dimensions of the scanned image ... Read review