"John Day"
>>I wouldn't send it to china anyway if I were you. As soon as you send
>>them over, 4 or 5 clones will magically pop up on the market.
>>
>>--
>>solarwind
> 
> They do?

I'm afraid that solarwind is hardly an authority on the subject. :)
 

> We have had more trouble over the years with Eastern European fab and 
> assembly houses and even here in North America we tend to move around 
> because we have had issues with several fab & assemble companies 
> including one that did a direct knock-off of a product from our 
> photo-tools. We found out because our stencils were wearing far too 
> quickly - especially the $425 ones we pay for here. Strangely our $85 
> Chinese stencils were lasting three to five times as long!

Wow! Have you done anything about it? Was legal action possible?

Vitaliy
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