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Offline bettablue

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« on: Mon, 07 February 2011, 14:32:39 »
I am looking for a set of black keys/key caps for my model M keyboard.  I laso remember a while back that you could get red "Escape" keys, labeled as Panic buttons.  Does anyone know where I might be able to find these?  I have already gone through EBay and so far haven't gotten a response.  

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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #1 on: Mon, 07 February 2011, 14:55:40 »
Unicomp sells a set of blank black keys for $20.

They do printed keys... $2 per key with a $10 minimum order.
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Offline doebedoe

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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 07 February 2011, 15:47:20 »
^^ Unicomp. Have a set of blank blacks on the way to make my all-black, floss-modded, Model M. Strangely with shipping the credit card was only charged 14.95.

(Plus they're supposedly throwing in 2 keycaps I was missing. Really swell folks at unicomp.)
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« Reply #3 on: Tue, 08 February 2011, 09:27:07 »
That's a bit high.  $2.00 per key comes out to over $200.00.  I think I'll just stay with the white ones.
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 08 February 2011, 09:33:12 »
Well, the printing on the black keys doesn't last very long anyway, so if you're going black, you might as well go blank at the same time.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #5 on: Tue, 08 February 2011, 09:55:16 »
Sorry, misunderstood the question.

No one does printed black keys for Model Ms. Various technical issues make it problematic.
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« Reply #6 on: Tue, 08 February 2011, 11:33:29 »
buy a good condition m13 then replace all the keycaps with all black and re sell on ebay for 75% its worth.
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« Reply #7 on: Wed, 09 February 2011, 02:36:10 »
Now THAT seems like a good idea.  But then again, I just might keep the M13 for my wife's computer.  She would probably kill me for getting "Yet another keyboard".  Oh well, After she uses it for a couple of days, she'll love it.  She's already threantening to take my M away.
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Offline mjryan

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 03 March 2011, 16:07:56 »
Another place you might try for both colored keycaps (including black) and custom printing is fentek-ind.com (http://www.fentek-ind.com).  However, I have no idea as to pricing.  They also sell key cap labels, whch are pretty durabe.
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Offline obj-c

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 03 March 2011, 17:35:24 »
i cant find the black keycaps anymore, can someone link me too them?
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Offline BucklingSpring

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 03 March 2011, 17:39:23 »
Quote from: theferenc;291729
Well, the printing on the black keys doesn't last very long anyway, so if you're going black, you might as well go blank at the same time.


Really? I do have two black on black Unicomps and the printing are still fine. But I can't say that I have been using them that much. Is it why Unicomp stopped making black on black?
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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 03 March 2011, 17:52:17 »
White printing on black keycaps is problematic because they used pad printing.
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