[IC] GMK Electronics (Cherry OEM) Colored Esc's, Modifier Sets, CMYK, Number Row

[DanGWanG]

GMK Electronics - Colored Esc's, Modifier Sets, CMYK, Number Row

Preface
We are establishing our relationship with GMK Electronics as a community, rather than a vendor.  At the moment, I am acting as the single point of contact (with lysol's technical expertise at my hand) as a means of effectively communicating with GMK. 

While it's understandable that many of you would like to begin running GBs or custom keys with them, they are extremely busy at this moment producing orders for individual retailers, industrial manufacturers and whoever else out there that has a lot of capital.  Our goal here is to understand the process more than anything and contribute that knowledge to our future GB leaders.
 
With that being said, GMK has still found room in their busy schedule to make time allocations for our community.  The caveat here is that they can only produce certain items.  These items include novelty keys, modifier sets, and smaller things like that.  Given the time constraints, this project is going to be managed and micromanaged as much as we can.

TL;DR:  Be nice, be prompt and be aware.  We don’t have time to dilly dally, so choose your colors and pay your invoice within 48 hours after the GB closes.

Objective
We are gathering your opinions on color combinations for the specific sets below and nothing else.  We have designated the 4 products that will be commissioned to GMK for production.

*Full set discussions will take place AFTER this poll has completed.  Please do not discuss in here*

Voting on Keycap Sets
We will be voting on colors and deciding a SINGLE color variant for each set, except the CMYK set.  For example, if the highest rated color for the modifier kits was Purple, the only modifier set you can buy in the GB is Purple.

Voting:
1.Esc Bundle: Top 3 colors variations will be chosen.
2.Modifier Pack:  1 color variation will be chosen.
3.CMY-K Pack:  No color voting.
4.Number Row Pack:  1 color variation will be chosen.

Click the link below to vote for colors
VOTING ENDED

*Green color is AE. Thanks hashbaz for mockups =)

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What's in the sets

Esc Bundle: You’ll get a pack of three (3) Esc keycaps in the nominated colors.

• 3x Esc Keycaps

Modifier Pack (textless legends):  Full modifier set that should please Moogle and Tsangan set users.  Does NOT include spacebar.

• Shift (4 keys):  1.25, 1.75, 2.25, 2.75
• Ctrl (6 keys; 2x each):  1.0, 1.25, 1.5
• Alt (6 keys; 2x each):  1.0, 1.25, 1.5
• Windows (4 keys; 2x each):  1.0, 1.25
• Menu (2 keys; all blanks):  1.0 blank, 1.25
• Tab (1 key):  1.5
• Caps Lock (2 keys):  Stepped, Full-touch
• Enter (2 keys):  ANSI 2.25, ISO
• Backspace (1 key):  2.0
• Fn (3 keys; all blanks):  1.0, 1.25, 1.5

CMY-K Pack (textless legends):  Similar to the RGB sets, these will correspond as described below with black legends, no text.

• Shift – Yellow (4 keys):  1.25, 1.75, 2.25, 2.75
• Ctrl – Magenta (6 keys; 2x each):  1.0. 1.25, 1.5
• Alt – Cyan (6 keys; 2x each):  1.0, 1.25, 1.5

Number Row Pack:  From the tilde to the plus, similar to the original RA experimental set number row keys.

*7x Spacebars:  If we offer this, they will only be available in beige, black and Dolch grey.

Price and MOQ
We don’t have pricing and MOQ for full sets yet, but we plan to inquire about it in the next couple weeks. 

In order for us to receive a quote, we had to give sample colors because prices do deviate depending how easily they can get the colors.  We primarily chose either green, purple or brown for starters based on their original samples and feedback from the thread.  Of course, these are subject to change based on the polling but that shouldn’t deviate the price to any significant degree per set.

Esc Bundle (3x Esc keycaps)

• Quoted Colors:  Green, Purple, Brown with White Legends
• MOQ:  500 sets (i.e. 1500 keycaps)
• Price:  $5.76 per set

Modifier Pack (31 keycaps, different sizes)

• Quoted Colors:  Purple, Brown with White Legends
• MOQ:  400 sets
• Price:  $23.68 per set for either color

CMY-K Pack (16 keycaps, different sizes)

• Quoted Colors:  Cyan, Magenta, Yellow with Black Legends
• MOQ:  400 sets
• Price:  Unknown at the moment.  There was confusion around what we wanted here so a new quote for this should be available tomorrow.

Number Row Pack (13 keycaps)

• Quoted Colors:  Purple, Brown with White Legends
• MOQ:  400 sets
• Price:  $15.50 per set for either color

7x Spacebars

• Quoted Colors:  Beige, Black, Dolch Grey
• MOQ:  N/A.  No quote yet.
• Price:  N/A.  No quote yet.

[DanGWanG]

Current Polling Results

Totals as of 12/12/12 (whoaaaaa):
Modifier Pack:  White/Purple (39), White/Blue (38), White/Green (35), White/Brown (26)
Number Pack:  White/Blue (39), White/Purple (39), White/Green (35), White/Red (33)
Esc Pack:  Red/White (87), White/Purple (67), White/Green (58), White/Blue (56)

Interests:
Modifier Pack 161/186 87%
Number Pack 109/186 57%
Esc Pack 162/186 87%
CMYK 124/186 67%

[DanGWanG]

Reserved 2

[inlikeflynn]

ohhhhhhhhhhhh AE Esc keys

[jeroplane]

Wow, great price quotes. Filling in the form now

Hoping for GREEN all round! Just to confirm, the options are arranged as "first shot / second shot"?

[hashbaz]

Oof, that MOQ.  Rally ALL the forums!

[DanGWanG]

I think we can hit it

[inlikeflynn]

should be no problem to hit these sort of numbers.

i'll buy way more white-on-AE(light green) stuff than I should. like I know you will to Dan

[Halverson]

Count me in for multiple sets of everything! Now to choose colours..so hard!

[hashbaz]

Colors are easy.  Purple everything!

[BossBorot]

"Modifier Pack:  1 color variation will be chosen."

Oh snap this one is going to be a war

[Glissant]

Form filled in.

[Sai]

I put white/red for everything. 

[DanGWanG]

If you guys have interest in spacebars also, post in here and which colors.  7x only beige, black or dolch grey.

[DanGWanG]

The green color is AE btw...updating post

[The_Beast]

DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ovoxo]

Form filled!
Would like 7x in Black and Beige

[dorkvader]

So by White/green do you mean white with a green legend, or white legend on a green keycap?
Also, I'd prefer the darker green option (N7?) but I'll take what I can get

[Alessandro]

Awesome! Form filled! I just wish we could get the standard beige mod pack. I voted for it!

[DanGWanG]

So by White/green do you mean white with a green legend, or white legend on a green keycap?

The latter.  Its white legend on green keycap

[BiNiaRiS]

so are these prices exactly what GMK quoted you? that would mean shipping to the US, US taxes, and individual shipping wouldn't be included.

[dorkvader]

So by White/green do you mean white with a green legend, or white legend on a green keycap?

The latter.  Its white legend on green keycap

Thanks and awesome! Form filled.

I might be in for more sets, especially if it looks like we'll need more people to make this happen, but I only filled the form for the sets I KNOW I'll be getting.

Totally worth staying up until 3:00Om to do this. Very exciting.

[DanGWanG]

so are these prices exactly what GMK quoted you? that would mean shipping to the US, US taxes, and individual shipping wouldn't be included.

Thats right Bini

[rainb1ood]

Vote submitted!

Whatever would be the result, I'm still interested

[agor]

Voted!

[guilleguillaume]

I already voted.

Too difficult to choose only one colour per kit!

I'm interested in the 7x spacebars offered (Beige, Black, Dolch)

[BimboBB]

7x spacebar -> does that mean 7 units long spacebar, which is the original cherry lenght and not compatible to any modern board, except the korean custom ones? If yes, wouldnt it make more sense to offer the standard 6.25 spacebar? or is this one not available?


And what about beige/white mod pack?     Rayuki had a GB started about that one, with quite huge interest in that, rather than in exotic purple colors.

[rowdy]

Voted.

I've tried to curtail my obsession with yellow, hoping that if this pans out I might be able to get a full matching yellow set rather than trying to build up a set form bits and pieces.

[baldgye]

Voted, really hope this all comes together!

[Batmann]

Good job Dan/Lysol (DanSol, DanYsol? make sure you record the fusion dance and post it in the media section )
MOQ is kinda high, I hope we can hit it..!
Do you have any idea of a possible schedule? Once we have this it would save a lot to find a German proxy, probably DT is a good place to ask for this

[pasph]

Number Row Pack will be only ANSI?

[jeroplane]

The green color is AE btw...updating post

Darn, IMO N7 would look a lot better as modifiers... Like the colour of those caps from Royal typewriters.

[jdcarpe]

Voted. In for one of each color of the 7x space bars.

[AKIMbO]

Voted. In for one of each color of the 7x space bars.

Ditto....voted and want 7x space bars.

[Halverson]

Ahh why not, I'd be in for the 7x spacebars as well. All three colours.

[Acetrak]

Voted, GO TEAM BLUE MODIFIERS

Interested in all colors of spacebars, actually just interested in everything O.O

[tjcaustin]

Interested to see what happens.

[esoomenona]

I'm interested in each color of spacebar. Also, maybe we could see the results so far so maybe we can help push something that's reasonably ahead that we might be able to live with instead of wasting our vote on something that's never going to happen?

[Halverson]

Magenta/cyan esc. Bring Miami back!

[SmallFry]

Do we just type in white/black for the modifier pack if that's what we want? The color combos are interesting, but not what I'd like to see.

[Kabuks]

Voted.

[i3oilermaker]

Form Submitted.

[xavierblak]

Voted. Very interested to see this happening.

[penoulum]

대박 ~

[OrangeJewce]

Voted! Are there really going to be no sets that have black legends available for the first run? I wrote in black / red (mods) to compliment the earlier cherry replica red buy, I hope there are others with me! (I hope that means black legend on red key)

Cheers,

[shawn o]

Those are the only colors available? If so, why bother with moogle kits? They'll match nothing.

[inlikeflynn]

cause they will look awesome in green And you can bet that one of the retailers will have the "normal" colored moogle's sooner than later

p.s. 3 MN in a row!

[esoomenona]

Those are the only colors available? If so, why bother with moogle kits? They'll match nothing.

It's not a moogle kit, but a modifier kit. You can match it to something else.

[aggiejy]

Yeah, but matching is a concern of mine too. I'll buy whatever just to support.  White on brown is a good example... If be thrilled with a full set, but it would look like crap with white on black cherry doubleshots.

[esoomenona]

But it may also look good with black on beige (maybe...). I think magenta may look nice with black. But yes, matching is something that must be considered.