Yes - you saw correctly: Cheaper! Yay! How?
Simple - we are not going to round up design size to the nearest inch any more. Except for the 1 square inch minimum, the prices will now be the simply the area of the board calculated during upload.
Repeat: No more rounding up!
Important: Designs panelized together will now return uncut!! As part of the changes that allow us to stop rounding up we now strongly recommend that you do not panelize your design together to get a better price!. You don't need to do that anymore and if you do they will come back as one piece. Just to be clear: this only applies to designs you panelize together yourself and order as one item. Otherwise designs are cut as usual.
Ok .. hey, what about faster? Yes, we hope faster. The past couple of weeks we have been experimenting with the production system - we are hopeful that we can shave a few days off lead times and eliminate the exceptionally long waits. And, yes - the idea is to include four layer boards too, but shhh! I'll give a big shout out about that when we know it is certain.
Alright .. better? Of course! We are always getting better :-).
Enjoy!