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....?
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]
look more like some sort of printed plastic paint rather than a sticker on my keyboard
[Edited on 27/11/09 by Mr Whippy]
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
Like a stick of rock? 
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
MAGIC
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
MAGIC
Silk screen printing, is how it's done. Cheers Ray
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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Originally posted by Chippy
Silk screen printing, is how it's done. Cheers Ray
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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.
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
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Originally posted by blakep82
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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]
Different methods here
http://keycapsdirect.com/key-caps.php
How easily we are all sidetracked from building
Just fouind this
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Originally posted by blakep82
ha ha yessss! i got one somewhere still i think
are these really still being made?!
You may want to build something like this:
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Originally posted by blakep82
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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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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).