Important: From an FAQ document on the Agfa Support Page(July 02, 2002): “The 1212p with the on/off button is one of the Agfa scanners that does not work under XP. There are however beta drivers for Windows 2000 on the support site. For this scanner, there will never be XP drivers in the future since as of September 2001 Agfa is no longer in the desktop scanner and digital camera business. If you are running Windows XP and want to use your SnapScan 1212p with the on/off button, you can keep Windows 98 or 2000 on a different partition and install the drivers on that partition. For 1212p without the on/off button, the ScanWise 1.4.0.1 beta drivers work also on XP.” (no comment!)

Here are the steps for installing an AGFA Snapscan 1212p under Windows XP (the dialogs are in German but the content is the same in English):

Prerequisits:

• connect your scanner with the parallel port
• turn on your scanner before starting your computer
• disconnect all other devices from the parallel port (only the scanner is connected to the parallel port; cable < 2m)
• Logon as Administrator

1. Download ScanWise 1.4.0.1 and installation:
Download:
http://www.scanner-drivers.com/drivers/42/42945.htm
http://www.hkls-technik.de/snapscan1212p/ISP_1212P_V1401.EXE
 

The filesize of  ISP_1212P_V1401.EXE has to be exactly 9.289.605 Bytes!! If not, please download it again.


Define the installation directory:

Select the language for installation:

After that the main dialog for defining the next step appears:

Only install the ScanWise software (Step 2). Under Windows XP the driver can not be installed with the installation program.

If the setup program can not be started, you have to go in the agfa installation directory and execute there “setup.exe”.

Falls sich das Installationsprogramm nicht über diesen Link starten lässt, in das Agfa-Installations-Verzeichnis wechseln, das oben ausgewählt wurde. Dort die Datei “setup.exe” aufrufen.

2. Installation of Scanner Driver:
In the directory "C:\Agfa ScanWise Installer", which has been created in chapter 1 (or other location), are the necessary canner drivers located.

Start the control panel and there “Scanners and Cameras”. With the assistant add a new scanner. Selecting the driver you have to change in the directory "C:\Agfa ScanWise Installer" and select the file "EPP2000.inf".

Then select the Scanner "SNAPSCAN 1212P”:

Proceed with the installation and ignore the warning.

3. Device correction:

During the installation the scanner has been plugged to the wrong device (LPT1):

The correct device should be  "\\.\eppwdm0".

You have 2 alternatives to correct the device:

3a. Correction with a registry  file:

This can be corrected by the following registry file (download it an double-click on the file to add it to the registry): agfa1212xp.reg

If the installation fails, completely deinstall the driver and use the following registry file: agfa1212xp1.reg

ATTENTION: Before you add the registry file to the registry, you have to check, in which slot the scanner has been installed (regedit.exe). In my files it is slot “0000”: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{6BD D1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}\0000] Please check this registry key. If the slot is not “0000” (e.g. 0003), you have to change this value in the registry file!!

With a double-click on the registry file the contents is added to the registry.

3b. Correction with update of the driver:

• Restart the computer
• Select in the device manager (control panel->system->hardware) under imaging devices the Agfa scanner.
• In the context menu select “Update driver”.
• In the next dialog select “select software from list” (2. option); ->”Next”
• Select the second option (“select driver...”); -> “Next”
• Install driver for Agfa Snapscan 1212P

Check for the correct device:

Now the computer has to be restarted to change the configuration!!

ScanWise 1.4.0.1 should now scan images from the scanner. If you have communication problems in the preview you can try the preview again and again.

If you want to use the new ScanWise 2 software (there are some very good features), you should proceed with the following steps:

4. Installation of ScanWise 2.0:
Download:
ftp://EndUsra8:agfa2000@ftp.agfa.com/software/Public/DTP/010926051356/ScanWise.exe
or
http://support.agfa.com
or
http://213.244.19.244/touslesdrivers/ScanWise.exe

Install the software with the setup routine and after that copy the following files:

       SnapScan 1212P_2.bin
       SnapScan 1212P.ini
       SnapScan 1212P_2.ini
       satsnap1.ps

Copy these files from ScanWise 1.4 directory in the ScanWise 2.0 directory.

Then start Scanwise 2.0 and scan your images.



5. Problems and Hints:

• Usage of Fotolook under Windows XP has not been tested.
   
• When you have connected a ZIP-drive or a printer together with the scanner at the parallel port, the scanner does not work properly. After the scanner installation you can reinstall the printer driver and both devices should work at the same parallel port.
   
• Use a short cable for scanner connection (< 2 meter)
   
• Check the BIOS settings for parallel port: with EPP it should function; ECP and EPP+ECP can cause problems.
   
• When the installation fails, first deinstall the scanner and all entries; after that you must begin with whole installation procedure.
   
• If you get a comunication error, change the program priority of the scanwise application to “high” or “low” (task manager or cmd-prompt: start /HIGH scanwise.exe or start /LOW scanwise.exe). Just try it out.
   
• For using “hibernate” or “standby” mode you have to stop the service “Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)” and set the startup mode to “manual”.
   
• To avoid the communication error turn the scanner off and then back on again and wait for the scanner to reset before scanning again. Typically this error occurs at the beginning of a windows session, once a full scan has been completed it does not re-occur.
   
• Another possibility to avoid communication errors is editing the file cnfgvars.txt in the Scanwise directory. Here you have to cange the timeout values. The %-character is here the comment sign. Remove this character before the parameters und test different values.
   
• To solve a communication problem you can change the compatibilty mode of scanwise.exe to  Windows NT or Windows 2000. (scanwise.exe -> right Button -> Properties).
   
• If the color of the scanned images is not correct please delete the following two color profiles in the folder "c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color". You have to open an command prompt "cmd" and move to this folder. Then delete the files "srgb color space profile.icm" and "srgb2 color space profile.icm". A deletion with Windows Eplorer will not succeed!!
   
• Snapscan 1200 and other Snapscan models:
  In the registry change all entries from 1212p to 1200p and adapt or exchange some .dll's, .ini's und .bin's in the ScanWise folder and in WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder.
   
• Agfa Fotolook 3.6 (professional software, scans also with Snapscan 1212P):
  ftp://EndUsra8:agfa2000@ftp.agfa.com/software/Public/DTP/010912034058/fl36.exe
   
• Software for Snapscan 1212P without On/Off Button:
  ftp://EndUsra8:agfa2000@ftp.agfa.com/software/Public/DTP/ISP_1212-P_v1401.EXE
   
• Agfa Snapscan 1212U:
  If you have problems installing Agfa Snapscan 1212U under Windows XP you can try the following:
  Look the steps at Windows 2000 Installation of Snapscan1212P and copy the 1212u config files into the Scanwise folder (tips & tricks).
   

• http://members.optushome.com.au/freeball/agfa1212p.htm