>
> > Does anybody know of a PCB house that can do multi coloured, patterned
> > soldermasks on PCB`s ala. Looks very cool!
>
> >
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-parallax_cyclone_smrtp
> > ck.html
>
> I always thought that solder masks were introduced to prevent solder
bridges
> on wave soldered boards. Why are they even needed in any color for hand
> soldered boards?
>
> John Power
>

Having it in "some" color (instead of clear) is just good practice for
inspectability, i.e.. If it's green, then it has soldermask.

As for multi-color and such, as stated above "Looks very cool!"

-Denny

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