Let's talk colors!


The Display Case and the other parts (Shoulderbuttons, batteriecover, Stylus, Lid, etc...).. are still in greece..
ED mentioned that the bottompart was the first to finish.. (if i remember correktly)
Looks good so far, i would like to see a complett set..

Would it be possible to just use the printed parts to complete the set??
 
Did Bosbeetle delete his post? Peculiar. Edit: Nope, it was just on the previous page already.

Anyway, I was slightly suprised by that black shadow surrounding the keys and around the analogue nubs, but then I remembered that the underside of the case top has a black layer then a white layer to reflect more light while stopping any light leaking where it's not meant to. Hopefully soon they can get the board powered up and we can all see how that works!
 
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The transparent plastic caps of each action button could be replaced with coloured (semi) transparent ones, should be an compared simple task afterwards. No need for colour LEDs then. ;)

Except for that every single color means another print layer means additional costs per keymat.
 
Except that Fusion_Power was talking colouring the plastic caps on top of each key, not colour printing on the keymat itself.

Which would things even more costly, as plastic color is more expensive than normal color :D
 
I dunno, CD manufacturers always seem to have managed it.

Not to mention, making all the different buttons out of differently tinted plastic would mean separate moulds for them all.
 
I dunno, CD manufacturers always seem to have managed it.

CD manufacturers?
Where are they using different colored plastics in one CD?

Not to mention, making all the different buttons out of differently tinted plastic would mean separate moulds for them all.

No, it would be enough to do production runs with one color each.

I will take this as confirmation that the transparent case will cost less than any of the colored ones. Thank you very much.

Transparent is a color as well :)
You order plastic pellets premixed with everything you need (special effects, color, anti-scratch-coating, etc.) from the manufacturer and they will produce that according to your wishes.

If you want four different colors, you need four different plastic orders.

The color itself is not what's expensive, but you have a certain minimum amount (i.e. 250 kg).
Now imagine how much 250kg is in terms of these small buttons :)

Some materials (like transparent or standard colors) can be gotten in lower quantities, but anything custom has higher MOQ.
 
It is indeed possible to produce red, blue, yellow and green cases so that you can have 4-color buttons, but order quantity would be stupid low. Even if we could order only the keyboard-mould runs, it would mean thousands of spare green keyboards that nobody wants.
And colored keys would not look professional anyway.
 
Except for that every single color means another print layer means additional costs per keymat.

Which would things even more costly, as plastic color is more expensive than normal color :D

Sure it's more expensive if done from the factory-side, but I thought only onto some "after market" replacements somewhere in the future. Tinkering users should have no trouble to replace the transparent ABXY caps with their own tinted ones, maybe with 3D printing or whatever. Or using semi-transparent colour (model making) to paint these caps (from the inside of course). It was more about that this is possible and compared easy to do by the users if wanted. ;)
 
Does anyone know how big the Pyra keys are?.

The keytops seem to be about 8mm x 5mm , however, does anyone know exactly what they really are?
 
CD manufacturers?
Where are they using different colored plastics in one CD?
I was responding to Kingu and his expressing that it was hard to paint plastics. CD labels are printed on to a polycarbonate base. Perhaps the same type of technique is used to print the layers on the underside of the keyboard area?
 
The label isn't directly printed on the reflector. However, I had thought that it was embedded in polycarbonate, but that wiki diagram suggests it's just laquer on top of the reflector, to which the label is applied.
 
The label isn't directly printed on the reflector. However, I had thought that it was embedded in polycarbonate, but that wiki diagram suggests it's just laquer on top of the reflector, to which the label is applied.
That's DVDs. That's why DVDs are a lot more resilient, since the layer is embedded inside. A CD you can destroy by just just a scratch on the printed side.
 
So do you guys just like not remember the iMac and iBook or something? Steve Jobs was all about a spectrum of case colours for a while, and then just as quickly he wasn't.

Why does everyone pretend like Steve Jobs was some design genius with a singular vision; he changed his mind many times and basically listened to the prevailing narrative that was presented to him by the designers he trusted.

Count me off that "everyone", for me he was just an okaish CEO with too much hype over, I´m more found of the other Steve.
Yep I recall the I-things, they had them cyan or orange(the ones I saw) and it all looked like a toilet to me for some reason. :)
 
Hi to all i m new here ! But i saw the pandora at TGS2015 in france and since i saw it i want one , ok now i want a PYRA !
But for the color if it s possible i want a nice dark with a metallic look or the scratch resistant coating. Many thanks to the team & all. peace
 
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