Hi Fellow TechNetters,

I am expecting a fabbed board for our first leadfree production build next month and have just been informed by the supplier that the artwork contained silkscreen on quite a few of the solderable SMT pads. They didn't catch it in time, so now they are asking is we could accept the boards (qty = 1000) this one time. My PCB spec does not allow silkscreen on any solderable surface, so I could reject the boards, but my concern is that there may not be enough time to have more boards fabricated in time for this build. I know that the boards wouldn't be acceptable per IPC-A-610, but does anyone have any experience with this situation and the best way to handle it?

Thank you, 
Paul Black 
Manufacturing Engineer 
Kronos 

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