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3eddies Ink Chip Hack

This document discusses cracking the Epson 1290 ink chip to allow refilling and resetting of ink cartridges. It describes monitoring signals sent to the chip from a commercial resetter to understand the chip interface. The author determines that pad 4 is the read/write line and pad 7 is a reset/sync line. They are then able to read and write the chip using a microcontroller and develop an adapter to access the chips directly from a PC.

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3eddies Ink Chip Hack

This document discusses cracking the Epson 1290 ink chip to allow refilling and resetting of ink cartridges. It describes monitoring signals sent to the chip from a commercial resetter to understand the chip interface. The author determines that pad 4 is the read/write line and pad 7 is a reset/sync line. They are then able to read and write the chip using a microcontroller and develop an adapter to access the chips directly from a PC.

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<p><font style="font-size: 20pt" size="5"><font
size="6">Cracking the
1290 chip</font><br><a
href="http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/email.html"><font size="4">Before
emailing me please read this.</font></a></font></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><a
href="http://www.eddiem.com/photo/CIS/inkchip/chip.html"><font style="font-size:
15pt" size="4">Part1
cracking the 2100p protocol</font></a></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><a
href="http://www.eddiem.com/photo/CIS/cis.htm"><font style="font-size: 15pt"
size="4">My
Home brew CIS</font></a></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><font style="font-size: 16pt"
size="4">26<sup>th</sup>
Jan 2003.<br><font size="3">Since posting my 2100p chip
hack and my
<a
href="http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/chipreset/resetchip.html">chip resetting
program</a>
I have had quite a few inquiries from large format epson
owners
seeking resetters. The desktop printer owners are pretty
well
catered for with reasonably priced universal resetters.
Some
people still complain about the price but really they can
pay for
themselves after one cartridge set is refilled. The
professionals
are not so lucky. One of my contacts informed me that the
7600
can use chips out of the 870/1270/1290 etc series desktops.
The
pin out is obviously different so the printer must have be
modified. Anyway I though it might be worth cracking the
1290 and
if possible adding this series to my reseter. I don't have
any of
these printers so I bought a commercial reseter to see what
the
signals look like. If I can do the 1290 I may be able to do
the
7600 etc.</font></font></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><font style="font-size: 22pt" size="6"><img
src="Eddie%27s%20Ink%20chip%20hack3_ficheiros/ilrs.gif" name="Graphic1" vspace="8"
align="BOTTOM" hspace="8" height="267" border="0" width="395"><img src="Eddie%27s
%20Ink%20chip%20hack3_ficheiros/padnumbers.gif" name="G5: Chip_layout" vspace="8"
align="BOTTOM" hspace="8" height="197" border="0" width="227"><br><font
size="3">This
is what a commercial chip reseter sends to the chip. The
traces
are (from top) pads 1,5,6,7 and 4.</font></font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font size="3">My best (but probably wrong)
theory is
:-<br>5 is obviously a clock for synchronous serial.<br>6
is
power (this is known from data sent to me about fake
chips)<br>4
is a select line which is high for black chips and low for
color
one.<br>That leaves 1 and 7.</font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font size="3">A least one of them will be
a data
line and the other could be a read/write.<br>If the ink
level is
stored the same way as the 2100p style chips then 1 is data
and 7
is R/W and write = high. </font>
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<p align="LEFT"><font size="3">Alternatively the R/W may be
encoded
in the serial data as it is in the 2100p. But you don't
need the
other line then.</font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font size="3">I can't talk to the chip at
all. I may
have killed it somehow. The ILRS seem to output 4.6V so I
would
expect the chips to work on the 5V supply I'm using but
maybe
not.</font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font size="3">Time to dust off the CRO I
guess.</font></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><font style="font-size: 16pt"
size="4">27<sup>th</sup>
Jan 2003.<br><font size="3">I managed to read and write the
chip
with a micro. I was close. Pad 4 is the R/W and pad 7
appears to
a reset/sync line. I erased most of the data in the chips
while I
was working it out but they appear to have about 32 bytes
of data
in them like the 2100p. The next step is to make an adapter
so I
can access them directly from the PC.</font></font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font size="3"><font style="font-size:
16pt" size="4">2
hours later.</font> <br>It works. Not much more to say
here. The
program is over at this <a
href="http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/chipreset/resetchip.html">page.</a></font
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<p><a href="http://www.eddiem.com/index.html">My home page.</a></p>

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