[need driver] Canon CanoScan N1220U

Thank you very much, MiloDC. I succesfully installed it in my Windows 7 32bit, and my Canon Scanner N1220U works perfect!! Great!!

Not quite there...

I tried doing what Milo suggested in a post above, yet it still doesn't work. When selecting the folder for Windows to look for the driver, it just doesn't find it.

I've got a Win7 Home Premium 64-bit running, not sure if the tests here have been made on 32-bit?

Can anybody help....?

Such a shame, I love my little scanner

Ps. Tried installing Hamrick VueScan Pro (as some other forums suggested) and that didnt work either.

Hi there
I have a similar scanner -- N1240.

The easiest way is to run it in an XP Virtual machine -- works perfectly.

Either use XP mode or run in a separate XP machine under vmware / virtual box. This way it doesn't matter if your HOST machine is W7 X-64 or W7 x-86.

On the XP virtual machine the Canon software works fine.

Scanner is perfectly OK so don't throw it away.

Cheers
jimbo

houseplant said:

I've got a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit running, not sure if the tests here have been made on 32-bit?

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The drivers on my site don't work on 64-bit operating systems. 32-bit only.

I'm sure there are 64-bit drivers out there, somewhere.

MiloDC, I just registered for an account here to say thank you to you for the Canoscan N1220U drivers. They got my scanner working again on Windows Vista. I'm so happy!!

I can not download the zip file from the link. Can you help me?

Hi there
This as I said is the EASY way to run this

run it in a Virtual XP machine then you can use the proper CANON driver.

To use the file in photoshop on the HOST machine :

1) from the VM connect Network drive (a Drive that your HOST machine sees)

2) import the image into your VM on to the "Network" drive -- i.e the Host drive. Use the Canoscan or other favourite utility to acquire the TWAIN image and save it on your Network (i.e Host) drive. I use Paperport but there are others.

3) Open Photoshop (I'm using CS5 so I know it works OK) on your HOST and read the file you created.

No probs.

As for the XP Virtual machine you only need a small 512MB VM won't use any Host resources of any significance.

Don't throw the scanner away --it's perfectly good and probably better quality than a load of these "Combo print / fax / scanner" devices available now -- the image quality on those devices is probably highly dumbed down to mobile phone pic quality rather than a decent photo image quality you can get from a DSLR.

Photography BTW isn't just about the nr of Mega pixels in the image -- mobile phone cameras for example can't give pics with a small DOF (Depth of field -- essential for GOOD Portraits) etc

Using a proper XP VM system saves messing around with all sorts of "work around" drivers etc originating from who knows where -- and you only need to start the VM when you want to use the device.

Use VBOX or VMWARE player (both free) for creating and running your VM.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi Jimbo,
Thank you for the quick reply. I tried to download the XP mode from microsoft but it seem that is not for W7 home premium.hen I selected the operating system is posting a message that is not available for this operating syste. Any sugestion?
Regards
Florin

florinpetriu said:

Hi Jimbo,
Thank you for the quick reply. I tried to download the XP mode from microsoft but it seem that is not for W7 home premium.hen I selected the operating system is posting a message that is not available for this operating syste. Any sugestion?
Regards
Florin

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Hi there
download Virtual Box or vmware player -- both free -- then create an XP VM from either a running XP system (use vmware converter also free - to create a VM from a Real machine or an XP install disk).

This will even run on HOME BASIC.

Don't bother with XP mode for this type of application.

Once you've got the vm installed ensure you also install vmware tools or vbox additions depending on what you are using for running the vm --this will improve display, mouse and USB performance. These programs run from INSIDE the VM once you've booted it up.

Cheers
jimbo

Thank you to MiloDC & Import from scanner for Photoshop Elements 9

I just registered for an account here to say thank you to MiloDC for the Canoscan N1220U driver. I can now use my Canon N1220U canoscan with my Windows 7 32-bit machine and it works perfectly.

One problem I did have was when I tried to Import from the scanner into Photoshop Elements 9. It would not give me the option under File>Import to choose the Canon N1220U scanner. I found an answer to this problem and am reposting the answer from Barbara Brundage. After following the directions below I can now import from the Canon N1220U directly into Photoshop Elements 9.
http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61260&page=2
Originally Posted by Barbara Brundage
In Elements 9, you will need to move the Adobe TWAIN driver (Twain_32.8ba) if your scanner requires it, before you can scan into Elements.
Go to C:\\Program Files [Program Files(x86) for 64-bit systems]\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 9\Optional Plug-Ins\Import-Export, find the Adobe TWAIN driver, and move it to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 9\Locales\en_US (this will be different if you aren't in the US)\Plug-Ins\Import-Export.

Don't bother with VMs. I have been using Vuescan since my first post and it works flawlessly on Win 7 x64 since I installed it. It's better than the original canon driver.

That's for x64 of course since the driver MiloDC works for 32 bit

If MiloDC is still active on this forum, would you mind reposting the driver for the Canoscan N1220U. The link previously posted is now a dead end. Alternately, if anyone has the driver available, could you make it available.

Sorry, I'm a little late to this party. Just got the scanner out of hibernation for a project.

Thanks!
DFS

dsoelter said:

If MiloDC is still active on this forum, would you mind reposting the driver for the Canoscan N1220U.

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Try this link.

Thanks! Got it.

DFS

Thanks MiloDC, I now have the updated driver, but how do you get the software to work on the new OS? I've also downloaded Vue Scan, but have not paid for it. Is there a way to get the scanning software to work -- or is there some other free alternative? Thanks!

jeannec said:

Thanks MiloDC, I now have the updated driver, but how do you get the software to work on the new OS?

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Follow the steps outlined in my first post.

Just wanted to formally thank MiloDC for the link! It works just fine for me (since I have 32 bit OS). A suggestion for others out there using older scanners (I've gone through this several times myself), I use free software for saving the scans that's been great for me. It's called IrfanView and here's a link to the site to download it - IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide It's been very useful software for me and I hope it helps some of you too!

Still works after all these years!

I had looked for a driver for my CanoScan N1220U several years ago and needed it again after a rebuild. And it still works!

Thank you so much!