As luck or bad luck has it, I just trashed a printhead on a Pixma 4300.
I also have a chip reader.
If anyone is interested I can try pulling the flash chip off the Pixma 4300 and dumping the firmware for the printer.
The idea being a hacked firmware might be possible that allows printing while ignoring the chips and/or writing to the chip on the cartridges.
If anybody has any interest in this let me know and I'll attempt it. i will stipulate that if the flash chip is extremely
small I will probably have problems, but will have no problems donating the chip to somebody who feels up to the task of dumping the firmware.
I have no coding experience, just thought I'd offer the chance at a dumped bin for the printer.
I also have a chip reader.
If anyone is interested I can try pulling the flash chip off the Pixma 4300 and dumping the firmware for the printer.
The idea being a hacked firmware might be possible that allows printing while ignoring the chips and/or writing to the chip on the cartridges.
If anybody has any interest in this let me know and I'll attempt it. i will stipulate that if the flash chip is extremely
small I will probably have problems, but will have no problems donating the chip to somebody who feels up to the task of dumping the firmware.
I have no coding experience, just thought I'd offer the chance at a dumped bin for the printer.