8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
10:15 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
<grin> Many have molded plastic "decorations" attached.
Don wrote:
Dunno -- I was just talking from past manufacturing experience.
The only keyboards that I have which suffer from this
"screened on legends" are laptops. And, I have decided that
laptops are intended to be replaced as often as the OS
is upgraded :-(
When you make a *quality* keyboard, the keycaps
are shot
*twice* during the molding process -- once for the legend
and once for the key itself. So, the legend's color is
"in the plastic" instead of screened *on* the plastic.
Obviously, costs a fair bit more to do things this way.
But who makes them?
and with no windows ++ keys. Just like
equipment cases that re *painted* vs. those
where the color is molded into the plastic.
What plastic? Big heavy painted racks on this list. :)