Re: gEDA-user: PCB prototyping sponsors?

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:35:13PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Are there any pcb prototyping manufactures that sponsor PCB/gEDA.

I saw one anti-sponsor, sort of. They claimed they take Gerber RS 274-X.  I
gave them a valid Gerber RS 274-X (happened to be from PCB) and they said they
cannot read it and that they can read a Gerber from everyone except me. So I
went to a competition and they had no problem with it. I did a lot of boards at
the competition and basically everyone who builds Ronja takes boards from
there. And they have a much cuter guy at the counter there :)

CL<
> 
> The folks at 4pcb.com were very helpful when I was working on fixing
> the gerber exporter.  Their tech guys answered many emails and
> explained their end of things; if you want to "reward" support for
> PCB, they're the only ones that come to mind.  When you submit your
> job, tell them "I chose your company because you helped make PCB
> better.  Thanks!"  Others may have other suggestions; 4pcb was the
> first company I dealt with so maybe everyone is that helpful.
> 
> > I'm working on a new project for a client, and I would like to use
> > someone who supports Open Source Software if practically possible.
> 
> But as for supporting PCB's output, most of them support it just fine,
> because the industry uses an open standard - gerber - so it doesn't
> take much effort to "support" pcb that way.  There are a few that
> don't fully support gerber, but we've been working on changing pcb to
> accomodate those too.
> 
> I've used 4pcb abd pcb-pool and both had no problem with pcb's output,
> although, to save money, I transcribed the gerbers into gcpreview for
> pcb-pool.
> 
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