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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: wanabe on Fri, 06 May 2011, 11:22:10

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: wanabe on Fri, 06 May 2011, 11:22:10

Are cherry lasered beige/white keys always pbt?

I recently got some with a donor g80 board and surprisingly liked them. I want to finish up my set bc I got one of those fat enter keys that I hate

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: wanabe on Fri, 06 May 2011, 11:58:21

These are the ones that I'm talking about (courtesy of sixty's post http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?15038-History-of-Cherry-Corp.-MX-Keycaps)

(http://i.imgur.com/dUiB4.jpg)

does anyone know if there are other variants of cherry white/beige lasered key caps?

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: RickyJ on Sat, 07 May 2011, 14:44:37

From what I'm seeing, it's 99% for sure (1% because Cherry did strange things at times).  Sixty is a good source of Cherry info, it helps being in the same country that Cherry is headquartered in.

I'm not sure of the date of manufacture of the G80-8113 I'll be receiving on Monday/Tuesday, but I am excited about PBT keys (either thin or thick wall) now that I know about it.  I just wish the board I'm getting didn't have the ISO enter key, but it's better than a bigass one like on the board I'm using now.

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: wanabe on Sat, 07 May 2011, 16:57:48

yeah i think the lasered PBT keys are underrated around here.  even though they don't look as nice as the doubleshots, i think that they feel nicer

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: keyboardlover on Sun, 08 May 2011, 11:13:42

Cherry Corp ABS Doubleshot vs. Cherry Corp PBT Lasered:

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=17990&d=1304869134)

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: Pylon on Sun, 08 May 2011, 13:12:53

Well, that puts things in perspective. Though lasered keys tend to vary. Some keyboards have nice non-scratchy keys with reasonable contrast (I suspect these use infill), while others have thin, scratchy lettering with really terrible contrast.

Title: White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?
Post by: RickyJ on Mon, 09 May 2011, 23:27:36

Mine doesn't look as bad as that one.

(http://members.shaw.ca/rgustafson/PC/g80-contrast.jpg)

The grey keys are lighter than the white keys, but that's the nature of the plastic and what the laser scoring has to contrast with.