>If you use SMD on both sides, that requires one extra stencil, and one=20
>extra process through the SMD line - that will definitively be more=20
>expensive.

Not always an extra stencil - if your design doesn't care about which side =
is assembled first (i.e.
no heavy parts, or glue-dotted) you can lay out both sides on the same side=
 of the panel and flip it
over for the second pass.
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