Instead of paying 4PCB's exorbitant prices, check out pcbcart.com. You don't need to panelize (they handle that themselves); you just put in the PCB size and quantity desired, and they give you prices for all the quantities around that. If you're getting any decent quantity of boards made, they're by far the cheapest I've found. In quantities of 100, my boards typically cost around $0.50 each, and much less if I get 500 or 1000. Don't forget to account for the shipping cost though (usually around $25-30).
Dan --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "G.Dragon" <treg...@...> wrote: > > I am working on some PCBs that are pretty small (1.5x3 inches and 1.05x 5 > inches) and am running into a cost issue. in small quantities, single PCBs > like this are as expensive as larger PCBs. after talking with a rep from > Advanced Circuits, he suggested that I panelize the boards to fit 7-10 or so > of them on a board and then submit that, that way it would be far more cost > effective. And since I'm not expecting to make a profit on these, and am > only hoping to break even, that would be great. >
