Muirium wrote:Anyone up for championing inferior legend technologies vs. doubleshot and dyesub?
There's no way to win. You cannot pull of Diatec's exquisite typography with either doubleshot or dye sub: the former is too coarse, and the latter doesn't support black keycaps. Doubleshot legends are durable, but they lack finesse. (Acer knew how to do dye sub, but Apple's attempts sucked, with horribly blurry writing.)
Also, those old Nan Tan pad-printed boards never wear — I tried to scratch off some of the printing and it was really hard to shift the rock solid ink. Lovely jet black ink that looks every bit as good as doubleshot, if not better, as you have freedom of typography. You can get robust pad printed legends with UV cured ink or some such¹ and avoid that horrible decal look. Dell currently use non-decal printing on their Latitude notebooks.
However, the nonsense about doubleshot needing to be ABS needs to come to an end. There are plastics that support doubleshot fantastically, retaining their texture forever.
The labelling method that needs to die in a fire, is lasering. Nothing is worse than singed plastic lettering that looks like a dot matrix printer with a fading ribbon. Shoving hardened spooge into holes in the keycap sucks, too, and while Matias do a reasonable job, they've introduced jaggies into the lettering!
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Pad printing suffers from being demonised due to poor implementation, so no-one documents the specifics, and why many keyboards don't have the decal look. 
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