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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: Dabless on Wed, 16 January 2013, 15:29:20
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Hi, I'm new here and I need some advice.
I have a crosshair k90 (http://www.corsair.com/en/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/k/9/k90_top_us_lit.png (http://www.corsair.com/en/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/k/9/k90_top_us_lit.png)) as you can see this is not a "Beautiful keyboard". I bought this because of the Marco + blacklithg + USB hub. I want to know if there is a way to paint the kay cap without "losing" the letter, and the bliacklight effect. I am too poor to buy key cap, I wasted all my money in this keyboard l0l.
Thanks !
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I would aviod painting key caps, because you will just rub of the paint, there are many other reasons but this is the simplest. If you did decide to spray paint it, then you would find the paint would go sticky and be horrible to use, you are best off saving up some pennies and buying some nice cheap keys.
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Welcome to the forum good sir. Just wish you had more Dab about you :))
Definitely haven't wasted your money! I really like the plate design, just the keyboard would be too wide for my desk.
I personally don't know how to paint the cap and still achieve letters + backlight whilst still making the keyboard look good but you've come to the right place.
I think i'd just save up more money to buy newer caps, although wanting to keep the backlit makes that a bit more difficult!
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Welcome to Geekhack!
Unfortunately they are black keycaps, so you would need a fair few layers of paint to change the colour. This would, as you might guess, also paint over the transparent lettering.
Also unfortunately there are very few sets of backlighting-friendly keycaps around at the moment. So try to tolerate them for now, hopefully in time some cheapish backlight-friendly keycaps will be available.
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Hi, I'm new here and I need some advice.
I have a crosshair k90 (http://www.corsair.com/en/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/k/9/k90_top_us_lit.png (http://www.corsair.com/en/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/k/9/k90_top_us_lit.png)) as you can see this is not a "Beautiful keyboard". I bought this because of the Marco + blacklithg + USB hub. I want to know if there is a way to paint the kay cap without "losing" the letter, and the bliacklight effect. I am too poor to buy key cap, I wasted all my money in this keyboard l0l.
Thanks !
With all the information in your head and being an IT guy I'd assume you know the answer to that already ahahah.... This will be really awkward if you don't get the reference....
Anyways welcome to GeekHack! :P