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Finally made my breakout cable, and got the following results:

HP F4480 Breakout Cable


Pin	Voltages	Dir	Name	Comment
1	0.0v	Out	ENC_A	Encoder A Output
2	0.0v	Out	ENC_B	Encoder B Output
3	0.0v	Gnd	GND	Ground
4	1.6v	In		CYM Ink Control
5	0.0v / 0.9v / 1.1v	 ?		CYM Ink Control
6	0.0v	Gnd	GND	Ground
7	0.0v / 1.5v	 ?		Disconnect - No effect
8	0.0v / 1.5v	 ?		Disconnect - Immediate stop of printing
9	0.0v	Gnd	GND	Ground
10	1.6v	In		Black Ink Control
11	1.1v / 0.9v / 0.0v	Out		Black Ink Control
12	0.0v	Gnd	GND	Ground
13	0.0v			Disconnect - print continues, no ink output
14	0.0v			Disconnect - immediate stop of print, E - Ink
15	3.3v	Vcc	VCC	3.3v for logic
16	0.0v	 ?		Disconnect - immediate stop of print, no error
17	16v	In	VINK	Voltage for ink jet
18	16v	In	VINK	Voltage for ink jets
19	16v	In	VINK	Voltage for ink jets
20	16v	In	VINK	Voltage for ink jets

So, interestingly, looks like all the CYM ink control is on just one shift register.

Next, need to set up some LEDs to see if I can figure out which signals are used when, until I can get a good logic analyzer attached.

For now, investigation will focus on pins 4,5 and 10,11.

Hopefully the LED test will reveal which of the other pins is the ink shift register clock.