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Common Mistakes When Specifying CCL & How to Avoid Them

Common Mistakes When Specifying CCL & How to Avoid Them

  1. Too low Tg / poor thermal specification → Boards get distorted / fail under heat.
  2. Ignoring copper foil type (ED vs RA etc.), solderability, peel strength.
  3. Picking wrong thickness — too thin for current, too thick for flex or fine pitch.
  4. Over-spec’ing high frequency lamination when not needed (cost waste).
  5. Neglecting environmental / regulatory compliance → product delays, rejection.
  6. Poor supplier vetting → batch variation, delayed delivery, quality issues.
  7. Advice: Always ask for datasheets, sample boards, test reports; do small batch / prototype first; define all parameters clearly (thickness, copper weight, Tg, finish, Dk etc.)


How Chetumax Sales and MM Enterprise assist you in choosing according to your needs:

  • Expertise in sourcing different types of CCL.
  • Help customers pick the correct spec.
  • Transparent quoting with explanation of material, copper weight, finish, etc, along with the option of importing at Chinese FOB price and if you want, we can import under your company name too.
  • Access to top-notch Chinese suppliers, with quality checks and certificates from SGS, RoHS so you don’t get surprises.

Step 1

Design and Output

Step 2

From File to Film

Step 3

Printing the Inner layers

Step 4

Removing the Unwanted Copper

Step 5

Layer Alignment and Optical Inspection

Step 6

Layer-up and Bond

Step 7

PCB Drill

Step 8

Plating and Copper Deposition

Step 9

Outer Layer Imaging

Step 10

Plating

Step 11

Final Etching

Step 12

Solder Mask Application

Step 13

Surface Finish

Step 14

Silkscreen

Step 15

Electrical Test

Step 16

Profiling and V-Scoring

Step 1:

Design and Output

  • Circuit boards should be rigorously compatible with, a PCB layout created by the designer using PCB design software. Commonly-used PCB design software includes Altium Designer, OrCAD, Pads, KiCad, Eagle etc. NOTE: Before PCB fabrication, designers should inform their contract manufacturer about the PCB design software version used to design the circuit since it helps avoid issues caused by discrepancies.
  • Once the PCB design is approved for production, designers export the design into format their manufacturers support. The PCB industry birthed extended Gerber as the perfect output format. Different PCB design software possibly calls for different Gerber file generation steps, they all encode comprehensive vital information including copper tracking layers, drill drawing, apertures, component notations and other options.

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