Workshop: repairs and experiments

Tag: BGA soldering

Resetting the Samsung SCX-4200 / SCX-4220 cartridge chip: a two-resistor programmer and PonyProg

28.05.2014

The printer rejects a refilled cartridge because of the counter in its chip. A programmer from a COM port and two resistors, reading in PonyProg, which bytes to clear and why the serial number must change. Plus the fault that makes the printer print halfway down the page.