[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!!

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?

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

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