Charles, Don't try to talk down what I said. I've told the FTC all about AGFA's shady business. Aparantly unless you've lost more than 5000 dollars it isn't worth their time. What am I doing about it? Upholding my promise to AGFA to expose their crappy company for the piece of dung it truly is. Someone asked about scanners, and cheap ones, and basically I am saying to them, "sure , buy a cheap scaner, but do not buy an AFGA scanner." And I am simply give reasons why. Another thing. They never sent my rebate either. It's been over 2 years now. It may be over 3 years now, but frankly I've now lost track of the exact dates. They ignore me to get removed of their mail list, they don't answer their technical support, they are a fraud regarding their damned rebates, and their product is the crappiest product I have ever seen in my life, in fact their company is the scummiest fradulant scam, and a source of spam, their webservers all have cookies and javascript and passwords to snoop on you, their tech support contradicts their own selves and then ignore what they do not want to hear, so they go into automated reply mode, which after 30 days if the problem is still existing they just ERASE IT LIKE IT WAS NEVER THERE! I REITERATE STAY AWAY FROM AGFA, OR YOU CAN LEARN LIKE I DID. NEVER TRUST A COMPANY THAT DON'T HAVE A REAL EMAIL ADDRESS!
the company spams you once you give up personal information, they corrupt their database so you can't remove yourself from their email list,
I have been using a 1212u (the USB version of a 1212p) for over a year and have only gotten 3 emails from them about product deals. I have a gotten more than 3 emails from them. It's all spam now, and their technical help ignored my original case.
Then let's talk about the product, the 1212p is a total piece of junk, it has problems in ever operating system, saying there are errors. I tried it in win95, win98, NT3.51, NT4, Vmware running win98 no go at all,
Don't know about Windows, but it works perfectly under SANE. BTW why are you using it under Win95 in VMware when SANE supports it?
I am not. I said win98 under VMware it wouldn't run. I said it has errors in EVERY other operating system. Setting up the
"P" version under SANE is straight forward, the "U" version requires a patch to the 1212p driver.
but their servers are so slow they time out on the downloads Never had that problem. Well I have, and that is why I am telling you about it. I wouldn't just sit here wasting my breath on it for the hell of it. I was getting less that .5k/sec on their crappy server, and I told them about it as well, I finally ended up sniffing their password for the ftp which "used to be"
The 1212p is not supported by SANE last time I checked. And that was probably about 6 months ago. I highly doubt this has changed. If Anyone happens to work for them feel FREE to forward this email to the OWNER of their bogus company and tell him I say they suck. And while your there ask for my REBATE! I never received. publicftp/guest or some damn thing like that, I forget now. I needed to know it so I could use a resumable download utility on it because it was so bad. And after getting the download it didn't help, there were still errors, bla bla bla SCSI error, contact your vendor. Well I contacted them alright, but they don't give a crap about their customers. They lied about their rebates, their website is crap, they spam you when you tell them not to, their product is crap. Any more questions? Thanks phil