[Coco] [COCO] PCB Manufacturers request

[jdaggett at gate.net]

David

I have used BatchPCB which is an affilliate of Sparkfun.com and they do very good work. two 
layer HASL is $2.50 per square inch. They ship out to China and it does take about 30 days 
to get boards back. This includes green solder mask and top silk screen layer. This pricing is 
per board. 

Two I have not used and have heard good reviews are Seeedstudio and OSHPark. 
Seeedstudio is great if you want ten boards. Their pricing is $9.99 for 5cm by 5cm two layer 
HASL finished. That does include ten boards. This includes green solder mask and top and 
bottom silk screen. They offer other colors for silk screen and different pricing for larger 
boards and solder mask colors. They real disadvantage of Seedstudio is that they have fixed 
maximum size for their pricing tiers. Their website is seeedstudio.com/services

OSHPark is an extention of Dorkbot.com. They offer $5 per square inch and this includes 
green solder mask, two layer, top and bottom silkscreen and Emmersion gold plating. This 
price includes three boards. They use an American vendor that offers the best turnaround, 
~12 days. 

I am planning of sending out about $200 worth of artwork to OSHPark.com in the next week 
for my Christmas display to OSHPark.com. 

All will do as small as 0.5 square inch. Seeedstudio is the cheapest per square inch if you 
can keep the design within their sloted size constrainst. All will accept multiple designs per 
submission. Though you do have to follow their rules. BatchPCB does not offer cutouts or 
slots within the deminsions. They will do odd shapes. I had a round board done through 
BAtchPCB and the work was excellent. They, like Seeedstudio, take upwards to 30 days to 
get boards back. One nice thing about BatchPCB.com is I received an extra board for all 
three that I ordered through them. 

Once I get my boards back from OSHpark.com I can better tell you of their qulaity and 
delivery. All will take gerbers. OSHParkwill take Eagle layout files without having to generate 
gerbers. I also recommend that you get a gerber viewer also to just go over the gerbers to 
see that they are generated correctly. Most are free. 


On 21 Nov 2012 at 0:16, David Ladd wrote:

> Dear List Members,
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> I am trying to find a good company that is also reasonable for
> the hobbiest to get PCB's made.
> 
> Does anyone recommend a reliable company?
> 
> Thanks for your insight ahead of time.
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