If you are soldering with paste, a stencil makes life a lot easier. Sure, you can apply paste by hand with a syringe, but a modern PCB might have hundreds or even thousands of pads. Like a lot of ...

Factory-applied nanocoated stencils are designed to enhance the release of solder paste, while uncoated stencils are still ...

But how do the actual solder-pasting results compare? 3D printed solder stencil on PCB, after applying solder paste. [Jan] says that the printed stencil had a few defects but it otherwise worked ...