Prototype PCB printing (1-2 units) in Singapore

[Plasty Grove]

Hi All,

A friend of mine referred me to this group as the best source for anything related to Technology. I'm into hobby electronics and have built a few projects.

I want to make my projects a little more permanent and sometimes perf board is too messy. Does anyone know of a cheap PCB printer in Singapore who can print 1-2 units? I don't want to build them myself at this point since that will take me much longer to complete my pending projects.

Any leads on this will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Best,
PG

[Roland Turner]

Not in Singapore, but nearby: http://www.seeedstudio.com/service/

- Roland

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[Mats Engstrom]

Lol.... "Nearby"  :-). Almost 4 hours of flight time to Shenzhen. And about 23 days of manufacturing + shipping time unless you use courier shipping.

But there's a company in Malaysia that does PCBs locally and also have fast prototype series of boards. http://www.custompcb.com

[David Lyon]

Hello,

I know the question was Singapore - can't help much there.

One way is to save up for a pcb printing press. I know, but they're not cheap:

  - http://www.lpkf.com/products/rapid-pcb-prototyping/circuit-board-plotter/protomat-s43.htm

Here's a board my friend printed out on his machine at work:

ttps://plus.google.com/109366813998920635083/posts/HMMopH9xtXQ

It took less than 15 minutes. (Don't ask how much the machine was - (just more)).

David

[Plasty Grove]

@Roland - Thanks for the link. Looks like they have a minimum of 5-10 boards (same price) per order. For my beginners PCB it comes to about $10 + $4 (shipping).

@Mat - custompcb seems really expensive - their quote says minimum 4 boards and for a 2inx2in 2-layer board it comes to around $80 USD o_O. Am I looking at the wrong option?

@David - I took a look online and it looks like that machine costs about $7-9K USD, not counting customs! LOL, I think that's a little out of my budget :). But your friend's PCB looks really slick. I'm happy to pay for the use of his machine if he's okay with it.

I also came across this one - iteadstudio.com which also comes to around $10 for a board. Has anyone used this?

Thanks all for the suggestions! Didn't expect such prompt responses :).

[Roland Turner]

On 09/17/2014 09:18 PM, Mats Engstrom wrote:

> Lol.... "Nearby" :-). Almost 4 hours of flight time to Shenzhen. And
> about 23 days of manufacturing + shipping time unless you use courier
> shipping.
>

Where I grew up, 4 hours was a domestic flight :-) I would not use
postal delivery from Seeed though.

> But there's a company in Malaysia that does PCBs locally and also have
> fast prototype series of boards. http://www.custompcb.com
>

Useful to know, thanks.

- Roland

[Roland Turner]

On 09/17/2014 09:46 PM, Plasty Grove wrote:

> @Roland - Thanks for the link. Looks like they have a minimum of 5-10
> boards (same price) per order. For my beginners PCB it comes to about
> $10 + $4 (shipping).

I suspect that $4 shipping is postal, which can take weeks. I'd use one
of their courier options (note that this takes 24h longer than you'd
expect because their courier pickup for exports is from Hong Kong, but
their dispatch from Shenzen to Hong Kong is via daily truck.)

- Roland