(iTers News) -HICEL Co., Ltd. started out as a maker of optical films for LCD panels in 1998 and today is churning out a wide variety of optical films from prism sheets to diffusion film sheets for LCD BLU system.

Based on its expertise in optical film patterning, HICEL recently came up with a circuitry printing technology that enables PCB, or plate sheet manufacturers  to print circuitry patterns on a wide variety of plates from PETs to PIs.

Compared with a traditional etching type-manufacturing process , the roll printing technology helps greatly cut short pre-cover-lay manufacturing processes by  4 steps from 6 to 2, leading to cutbacks in lead  time and costs.

"As you see, the advantage of our roll-printing technology can enable manufacturers to print circuitry patterns on a wide variety of panel plates like diffusion, or PET sheets with materials like silver, and then mount LED chips to shed light, " said Lee DongJin, assistant research engineer of R&D department.

The printing technology is especially very useful for patterning circuitry for  flexible PCB and OLED modules.

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