One of my customers is looking at getting some custom LCDs made.
Volumes will be fairly low (up to 1K/year), and displays will be
nothing exotic - 7-segment plus symbols,  3:1 or 4:1 mux, a couple of
square inches, with pins or zebra strip connections.

I'd appreciate any opinions from anyone who's been through the
process...

Is it better to deal with a local rep or a far-east factory direct ?=20
Any recommendations on Far-East suppliers that are easy to deal with,
and will not lose interest if volumes are not huge ?=20
Similarly anyone have recommendations of people in the UK that have
provided a good service ?
=20
It looks like tooling and 1-offs will be a major part of the cost, and
it would be useful to have some idea of the breakdown of 1-off costs,
so, for example we can decide if it's worth doing a detailed layout
ourselves or supplying a 'rough sketch' and letting the supplier turn
this into a layout, as they will be more familiar with design rules
etc and can presumably pull standard patterns like seven-segs out of
their library.=20
.

What's the typical/best turnround time for initial samples &
production.. ? At what point does it start getting more expensive ?=20

Anything you wished you'd known before getting a custom LCD done....?=20

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