nick205
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 01:55 PM |
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Laptop key legends - how are they applied?
Turning to the font of all knowledge, can anyone tell me how the legends are applied to laptop keys?
On mine and others I've looked at they appear to be some kind of transfer as they're slightly raised and have a transparent border of a mm
or so around the profile of the actual legend.
They also seem highly durable too - my HP notebook is coming up 5 years of very hard use and shows no sign of wear or loss of contrast.
How's it done....?
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Liam
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 02:03 PM |
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My desktop keyboard looks just like what you've described. Must be some sort of stickers innit? Hope that helps. Nice of you to refer to me
as the font of all knowledge - cheers.
[Edited on 27/11/09 by Liam]
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 02:07 PM |
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look more like some sort of printed plastic paint rather than a sticker on my keyboard
[Edited on 27/11/09 by Mr Whippy]
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blakep82
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 02:19 PM |
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hmm, its funnt, coz i on my keyboard, how they start of textured, the buttons are work completely smooth, but the letters are still on there 
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 02:42 PM |
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Like a stick of rock? 
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Fozzie
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 02:49 PM |
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One of our youngsters wore the 'E' off her lappy keyboard (smooth, not raised), so we took the key off, found a suitable letraset, and
applied a matt lacquer coat, put key back on, wouldn't know the difference now!
So I would assume it's a Letraset type application with a coating of sorts?
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 03:02 PM |
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MAGIC
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blakep82
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 03:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
MAGIC
its the only reasonable solution!
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Chippy
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 04:05 PM |
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Silk screen printing, is how it's done. Cheers Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 04:35 PM |
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Hmm, just looked at my ~12 month old Dell keyboard here at work and noticed the 'A', 'E' and 'S' keys all have
half the letters missing, pretty poor really. My 4-5 year old (Kensington) keyboard at home has loads of letters missing, but my 4 year old daughter
already knows which letters the missing ones are which is a bit worrying!
I would really like one of the wonderful IBM Model M style keyboards which are still made by "Unicomp", but they are expensive and my wife
complains if I have a noisy 'clicky' keyboard and work late at night.
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mr henderson
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 05:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Chippy
Silk screen printing, is how it's done. Cheers Ray
I concur
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blakep82
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 05:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
I would really like one of the wonderful IBM Model M style keyboards which are still made by "Unicomp", but they are expensive and my wife
complains if I have a noisy 'clicky' keyboard and work late at night.
ha ha yessss! i got one somewhere still i think
are these really still being made?!
[Edited on 27/11/09 by blakep82]
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 05:45 PM |
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I was watching one of the 'how it's made' progs the other night, and they were making bits for a snow ski type thingy, they showed
the making of some of the switch gear, and they looked just like the keys on a keyboard. They made a white bit with the letters on, then injection
moulded around it with a 'thingy' (technical name escapes me ), that gave the finished article.
Difficult to explain unless you actually see it
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 05:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
I would really like one of the wonderful IBM Model M style keyboards which are still made by "Unicomp", but they are expensive and my wife
complains if I have a noisy 'clicky' keyboard and work late at night.
ha ha yessss! i got one somewhere still i think
are these really still being made?!
[Edited on 27/11/09 by blakep82]
I just threw one of them out!
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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wicket
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 06:00 PM |
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Different methods here
http://keycapsdirect.com/key-caps.php
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 06:13 PM |
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How easily we are all sidetracked from building
Just fouind this
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 06:39 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
ha ha yessss! i got one somewhere still i think
are these really still being made?!
They sure are, you can now get one with windows keys and a USB interface if you want!
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Angel Acevedo
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 08:26 PM |
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You may want to build something like this:
http://images.google.com.mx/imgres?imgurl=http://brandsaredead.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/spa-kb1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://brandsaredead.wordpress.co
m/2009/01/page/2/&usg=___kV59O-fYLK870bsXwIa57JENt0=&h=300&w=400&sz=88&hl=es&start=6&itbs=1&tbnid=b1s9nM4lvlsjuM:&
tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcyberpunk%2Bkeyboard%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Des
Beware of what you wish.. for it may come true....
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 09:53 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
I would really like one of the wonderful IBM Model M style keyboards which are still made by "Unicomp", but they are expensive and my wife
complains if I have a noisy 'clicky' keyboard and work late at night.
ha ha yessss! i got one somewhere still i think
are these really still being made?!
[Edited on 27/11/09 by blakep82]
I'm sitting here, typing on an absolutely identical keyboard (made by Cherry)!
It's ancient, but soooooo much better than modern keyboards (I've tried a few others, but keep coming back to this one).
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 27/11/09 at 11:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
I'm sitting here, typing on an absolutely identical keyboard (made by Cherry)!
It's ancient, but soooooo much better than modern keyboards (I've tried a few others, but keep coming back to this one).
Most modern stuff can't hold a candle to the build quality and feel of these keyboards, but I guess an office full of them would be quite a
noisy experience!
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