# Stencil Specification

**URL:** <https://community.aisler.net/t/stencil-specification/43>\
**Category:** 🚀 Services and Capabilities\
**Created:** [December 11, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.aisler.net/t/stencil-specification/43 "2023-12-11T23:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thea](https://community-cdn.aisler.net/user_avatar/community.aisler.net/thea/32/1177_2.png) [@Thea](https://community.aisler.net/u/Thea)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.aisler.net/t/stencil-specification/43/1 "2023-12-11T23:00:00Z")

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## Overview

These basic specifications apply to all our stencils, other configurations are available upon request.

## Material

We only use high quality Japanese-made polished stainless steel for our stencils. They come with a thickness of 100μm which is suitable for footprints with small pin pitches. The Stencil apertures are laser cut.

Options like custom thicknesses, electropolish and nanofinish are available upon request.

## Stencil Configurations

We offer multiple stencil configurations to fit our customer needs.

Available via checkout:

- [Prototype Stencil](https://community.aisler.net/t/prototype-stencil-specification/3412)
- [Rapid Registration](https://community.aisler.net/t/rapid-registration/42)

Available upon request:

- [AISLER Production Stencil](https://community.aisler.net/t/aisler-production-stencil-specification/2931)
- [Solderpaste Jetprinter Data](https://community.aisler.net/t/aisler-production-data-for-solderpaste-jetting/2933)
- Custom Stencils

## Stencil Aperture

An optimized Stencil Aperture is the key for good paste printing results, we use software tooling to recognized whether you already optimized the paste aperture or not.

 ![Stencil](https://community.aisler.net/uploads/default/original/1X/6f4c81f053b71c7021b8417ffcb2ffe660953c93.jpeg)