[sdiy] PCB manufacturing in Taiwan

[mskala at northcoastsynthesis.com]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Andrei Kudryavtsev via Synth-diy wrote:

> No-China is a customer preference. Let's leave it outside of the discussion
> and focus only on Taiwan options. 

I have used Lion Circuits, lioncircuits.com - which is in India, not
Taiwan but not mainland China either.  Their quoting Web site and
manufacturing capabilities are similar to what you'd expect from the
small-quantity Chinese Web-based prototyping shops.  Pricing is noticeably
higher, though not insane; still less than you'd pay for boards made in
North America or Europe.

On a couple of early orders before I became vigilent about preventing this
at my end, there was a specific problem that if I had a silkscreen line in
my design that crossed the edge of the board (e.g. from a jack footprint
mounted nearly at the edge of the board) then Lion Circuits didn't print
that line, even the part that was within the board boundary.  I both
complained to them and made an effort to trim the lines myself before
sending them Gerbers, and it hasn't been a problem more recently.

-- 
Matthew Skala
North Coast Synthesis Ltd.