Inexpensive non-Chinese source for PCB Manufacturing?

[thinkfat]

Indeed. JLC isn't particularly a good one.

I just ordered my first, second and third boards from them a few weeks ago, and they turned out badly.

The Pb-free HASL turned out under covered, and the edge routing are misaligned, so my 0.25mm keepout was cut during singulation.

The soldermask alignment is good, though.

I would say many PCB fabs have hits and misses occasionally, but over my 5 years in US, OSHPark has only failed me once on 2L (soldermask) and once on 4L (routing), and PCBWay has never failed me, other than than stupidly high expediting fee.

Out of the three boards I ordered from JLC, two ended up not perfect. And it's not that I ordered 100 pcs of each and there's a yield issue on a panel.

I got singulated and presumably quality checked boards, only 5~10 pcs each, and two out of three designs have at least one bad board with bad HASL and for one particular design the edge routing is 100% misaligned for all 10 pcs.

It doesn't even take an idiot to see their router has cut into a through hole.

I realize its not really worth the time, but please try the "Quality complaint" link on your order page, maybe they can offer some refund or replacement.

Worked fine for me on that one order where they actually forgot to drill one hole in all PCBs. They rush-fabricated another run free of charge and it turned out good.

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[marshallh]

I just ordered some fine pitch BGA boards from Aisler as prototypes. I'll post my experience when they arrive in a couple weeks.

So far I was impressed that the gerber viewer was able to suss out the correct layer information. I just dropped the same ZIP that I generated from Altium for other pcb vendors.
The PCB preview image was also generated 100% correctly, even correctly distinguishing plated/NPTH and supporting slot milling in the outline layer.
Looks promising so far.