A client used them on one of my projects and I also found the quality to be very good. Their standard fare is always green. "Full featured" costs more and then you can pick. Even extreme stuff such as purple.
We did an ATLC electromagnetic simulation to get the PCB stackup right for a cheap edge-launch SMA connector. That required a cutout in the layer 2 ground plane, and a copper pour on layer 4, to get the impedance right under the center pin.
On one of those coplanar waveguide things, I left the layer 2 ground intact, no cutout under one connector, to see how much difference it makes. It really does matter.
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The good one is at cm5 on the scope, almost perfect, and the one with no cutout is at cm7... lots of extra capacitance.
The CPW trace was supposed to be 50 ohms, and it came out 62, which is mediocre even for FR4. Maybe I did the math wrong, or myro didn't follow my stackup exactly, which is reasonable if they panelize a lot of boards.
Yeah, these little boards are useful for testing parts and stuff.
Pretty good, actually.
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AFAIK (I heard this on a podcast with the owner of OshPark), the solder mask is more or less a silk-screened item. So if you have one color of solder mask on hand, the bit depth is (there or not). Two colors, 2, but don't ask for much spatial resolution. Etc, going up in number of colors.
Some board houses will let you do designs in the solder mask, but they do it by charging you for each color as a separate solder mask step.
My wife always seems to be healing up from something -- usually minor. If she goes more than a week after healing up, she ends up falling down some stairs or closing her hand in a door, or someone thumps her in traffic.
So when my mother's cat clawed her arm yesterday, I said "Oh good, that'll stave off the broken leg for a while".
(It's not me -- honest! She was doing that before we met.)
Probably you can have any color, provided there is an infinite budget. If you say you want it to exactly match your wife's hair color and send a $50k check along with that request I am sure the PCB house will oblige.
Laen the OshPark guy was in a podcast on this subject. Basically you need to pay for the custom-color solder mask, and then the board house will use it. Even if it's purple.
Sometimes you can get lucky. At one company the marketing guys wanted a new small handheld unit to be noticeable, standing out of the crowd. So we looked around what color granules could be had for injection molding. We found a good deal for a remnant batch in very loud purple. Showed it to the maketing folks and to my utter surprise they say "Cool! We want that!". The price wasn't very high, it probably was for some discontinued product. Minor inconvenience: We had to take it all, half a train car lot.
Internally our new product was called "Barney". They probably still have enough granules to last them through the next few decades of production.
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