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Archimedes' Lever wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:07:44 GMT, Sergey Kubushin <ksi@koi8.net>
> wrote:
>
>> In sci.electronics.design Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:59:19 +1000, David L. Jones wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Any know the real reason(s) why ceramic SMD caps don't have
>>>> markings?
>>>
>>> Money.
>>>
>>> It's way too expensive to mark teeny tiny little parts that nobody's
>>> ever going to look at anyway - the reels are clearly marked, and
>>> they're loaded into the stuffing machine, and that's the last human
>>> interaction the parts will ever see.
>>>
>>> If you're hand-prototyping, you'd either have to mark them yourself
>>> or mark the tape carrier or bin or envelope where you're keeping
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Hope This Helps!
>>
>> No. They _DO_ mark resistors and resistors are generally even
>> cheaper than capacitors.
>>
>  Learn to read, ditz!  Nobody was talking about resistors.  Christ!
> That is even obvious from the title!

Umm, yes it's about resistors too, it was mentioned in my very first post.
My original question is why don't they mark SMD capacitors, when it's very 
common to mark the same size SMD resistors.
So Sergey's remark is perfectly valid. It's common to mark cheap resistors, 
but it's not common to mark more expensive capacitors of the same size - 
why?
It's clearly not about cost, as Rich mentioned.
I'm assuming the reason is technical/process related, and not historical 
etc, but I'm not sure, so that's why I  asked.

Dave.

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