A few 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 of course 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 interested in the snapscan.
Well a few days 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 scanned 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 can be altered up to 800% or much smaller than 100% and you can choose to save only a portion of the image to your destination (so if you want to cut out most of the background you can do before you send it to your files, etc. You can adjust the color, brightness and saturation of your image.
Many types of images can be scanned from glossy photos, mat finish photos, magazine prints, news paper articals, original art, other types of prints and even 3D items such as jewelry etc. The maximum size of image that can be scanned is (8.5’’ x 11.7’’).
With some of the software that you get you can tinker with your scanned images and make many interesting effect such as page curl, soften the focus of image, add transparency, rotate image, add frame effect, add captions to your image, correct red eye, the list is endless there is so much you can do with the software.
All in all it is a good scanner and the price is good too, the only thing that lets it down is that you have to remember to switch the scanner on before you boot up your computer or it just won’t function as it should and it is quite large compared to many on the market.
~~~~Uk price is around £81~~~~