Talk:Double-shot moulding

I move to rename this article.

First of all, though having exactly two shots is by far the most common, three and four "shot" moulded keycaps do exist. Including them under this heading (and also on the "keycap printing" page) makes the most sense as they are the same process, just extended to a further step.

However, then it would be a misnomer, and wouldnt really make sense. Therefore, I say we should name this to better suit the fact that the legend is formed by contrasting colours of plastic directly. It is mentioned on this page, but I'd like to add more. I suppose I could make a triple-shot molding page and a quadrupel-shot molding page, but I feel like that's the wrong answer.

Some ideas: multi shot molding Injection molded legends something else?

I would like to contribute some three and four "shot" molded keycaps as examples here, as well as bulk up the knowledge surrounding keycap legending processes, but first we must ensure proper nomenclature is used throughout.

Also, to make Daniel happy, I guess I should learn some wiki markup language again, so I can have it all properly formatted and whatever. Dorkvader (talk) 02:45, 15 January 2014 (CET)

As a note, you may wish to discuss wiki issues in the Deskthority wiki talk forum where more people are likely to notice — not sure anyone reads the talk pages besides me :)

In terms of a name change — multi-shot moulding with more than two colours is very rare in keyboards — generally the third colour is added using pad printing. Looks like the alternative term is multi-shot moulding if that's what you prefer.

Daniel Beardsmore (talk) 18:21, 15 January 2014 (CET)