I would go with the best quality for production.  I have had PCB's made from
cheap companies and had to have them made else where on a 24hr turnaround to
meet the deadline.  It's even worse when your customer rejects the boards.

Brian.

>>But, for production
>>(assembled mostly by machine, all the soldering by machine anyway, and
>>probably most of the place) who cares about either of these things.  (I
>>think.)
>
>My reaction is to go with the PCBs that have the least problems when you
>rework them. You will have some "do not work" units off the production
line,
>and if your production run is not large enough to throw these away and
still
>have the required number of good ones, then you need to rework them. You
say
>that the lower priced ones you get one careful rework, but will the
>production staff be as careful after testing half the run ???

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