White/beige Cherry Corp laser always PBT?

[wanabe]

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

[wanabe]

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)



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

[RickyJ]

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.

[wanabe]

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

[keyboardlover]

Cherry Corp ABS Doubleshot vs. Cherry Corp PBT Lasered:

[Pylon]

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.

[RickyJ]

Mine doesn't look as bad as that one.



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.