<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Cheap fabs too. None of the usual China-based "$10 for 10x 100x100mm 2-layer 1.6mm PCBs" fab shops I've used in the last 5 or so years has ever given me boards back where the silkscreen contaminated pads<br><br></div>Seeed Studio definitely don't. Have sent them maybe 30 or 40 sets of Gerbers so far, and TBH while I try to keep silk away from pads in my layouts (what's the point in chopping off part of a label anyway? Seems counter-productive) I'm not exactly OCD about it<br><br></div>John<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2018 at 15:25, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsdio@audiobanshee.com" target="_blank">rsdio@audiobanshee.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Apr 2, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Richie Burnett <<a href="mailto:rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk">rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Careful. Silkscreen printing underneath surface mount parts can interfere with them sitting flush on the board. There's also the risk of ink going onto the surface mount pads.<br>
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</span>Good fabs will automatically exclude silkscreen ink from the areas exposed by the solder mask.<br>
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My final step in pcb layout is to hide all layers except the silk and mask, then move the text around (on its own grid) to maximize legibility while avoiding places where it will be a problem. But, then there’s the times when the fab changes the font or size...<br>
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Brian<br>
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