I’ve purchased PCBs form these companies:
Very good qualilty. I orderer a batch of 25 and got 26 :-) Was delivered by FEDEX. I orderer Monday morning and got it on Tuesday next week!
Pooling service run by SparkFun. 10$ tooling fee + 2.5$/in² (0.39$/cm²). They’ve got a DRC bot that automatically checks uploaded Gerber files for errors. The boards are manufactures by Gold Phoenix. It’s a nice idea, but for me it just takes too long. Waiting more than 4 weeks for a prototype just doesn’t cut it.
pending… still pending… it arrived. Very good quality, even affordable gold plating, but you have to wait for it. My first order took 5 weeks. Communication is a bit strange, you only get an order confirmation and that’s it. If you want more information, you need to ask.
- SeeedStudio: Propaganda service (now called FUSION) for open source designs
Good quality for small money.
Experience with drill files:
You better make sure the drill file complies with these settings. Otherwise you’ll have some emails going back and forth to fix the issue.
- Drill Units: inches
- Zeros Format: supress leading zeros
- Precision: 2.4
- Drill Origine: Absolute
- Drill Sheet: None
- Mirror Y Axis: OFF
- Minimal Header: ON