Agfa Snapscan 1212p

This scanner is one of the best invetsments in my computer that I have ever made. I've seen too many cheap scanners that produce very poor scans, so I looked for a mid-range scanner price under £100 and eventually chose this one. It's a parallel port scanner, so it plugs into the printer port on your PC. It has two ports on the rear of the scanner, one from the PC and the other connects a printer so you can still use your old printer even with the scanner plugged in ( although you can't use both at the same time). Installation was almost foolproof, with easy concise instructions. It tells you about setting the parallel port mode in the bios ...  Read the complete review

Around 10 months ago I decided to have a go at building a website to record our baby's life, and wanted it to include a selection of the hundreds of photo's we have. So I there for needed to get myself a scanner. It needed have a parallel connection, not sure why I am a bit computer dyslexic when it comes to technical talk. Any way we had a look on 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). ...  Read the complete review

Three and a half years ago now, when I first tumbled into the world of a decent home computer set up, one of the things I specified in my initial requirements was a flat bed scanner, because I had identified that I wanted to be able to capture images and back in those days the technology behind digital cameras was unproven and pretty damned expensive, so there were little real alternatives to scanning to get pix into my box. The unit which I was recommended at that time by my tame PC supplier was one manufactured by a company called Artec, with the main advantage being that it was cheap, dreadfully cheap. However, false economies are never a particularly good ...  Read the complete review

I am not a technically minded person, I can read manuals, but I can't cope with the sort of technology that requires indepth understanding before you can use it. When purchasing a computer and various accompanying bits, I asked for recomendations from friends - I wanted easy to use products that would give good results. The AGFA scanner was recommended to me - it isn't too expensive (about thirty 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 ...  Read the complete review

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 the picture as individual coloured dots. It is these dots 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 ...  Read the complete review