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My experience is very similar in Europe - most places want you to send gerber files manually, and you are rewarded with higher costs and slower turn-around than
by joefourier 6y ago
My experience is very similar in Europe - most places want you to send gerber files manually, and you are rewarded with higher costs and slower turn-around than getting PCBs shipped from China. Recently I actually managed to get a set of boards with SMT assembly shipped from China faster than bare boards from Germany, somehow.
How do those places stay in business? Military contracts? Highly specialised boards (e.g. 8+ layers, exotic substrates)? Companies paranoid about IP protection?
- madengr 6y agoYes. From a Chinese company do you get: Cross section for analysis. Certificate of conformance for all materials used. Testing of controlled impedance coupons. Proper waste stream. I’d never trust a Chinese PCB manufacturer. I have good dealings with several USA PCB manufacturers. Of course you do pay more, but it’s worth it. Funny that you see these YouTube tours of Chinese PCB manufactures. They never show where their waste stream goes. When I order from USA manufacture the plating and etching fluids are not being dumped in the river.