A circuit board including a substrate, a patterned circuit layer and a photo-imaginable dielectric layer is provided. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The patterned circuit layer is disposed on the first surface, and a line width of the patterned circuit layer gradually reduces from the first surface towards the second surface. The photo-imaginable dielectric layer is disposed in the substrate corresponding to the patterned circuit layer. In addition, a manufacturing method of the circuit board is also proposed.

A method of manufacturing a wiring substrate according to the present invention includes a step of forming a wiring layer including connection terminals on a first insulating layer; a step of forming a second insulating layer on the wiring layer and on the first insulating layer; a step of forming electrically insulative dummy portions separated from the wiring layer on the first insulating layer through patterning of the second insulating layer; a step of forming a third insulating layer on the wiring layer, on the dummy portions, and on the first insulating layer; and a step of forming openings in the third insulating layer for exposing the connection terminals in such a manner that upper end portions of the connection terminals protrude from the third insulating layer, and lower end portions of the connection terminals are embedded in the third insulating layer.

A component carrier includes a stack with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure, and a solder resist structure on at least one of two opposing main surfaces of the stack. The solder resist structure includes at least two different kinds of solder resist provided on one of said main surfaces.

A method for forming a resist fine pattern uses inkjet printing for printing an ink along a path to form a resist fine pattern on a substrate having the same surface energy. The method includes an ejecting step of simultaneously discharging a photocurable resist ink and a partition-forming ink that are spaced from each other on the front side and the rear side of the path and applying the light energy to the discharged photocurable resist ink. The intensity of light is set so that, as the photocurable resist ink is semi-cured and is ejected on the substrate in a gelatinous state, the ink forms a boundary that is vertical with respect to the partition-forming ink ejected on the substrate and the spreading of the photocurable resist ink is prevented, and the photocurable resist ink is cured after both the photocurable resist ink and the partition-forming ink are completely ejected.

A component carrier includes a stack with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure, and a solder resist structure on at least one of two opposing main surfaces of the stack. The solder resist structure includes at least two different kinds of solder resist provided on one of said main surfaces.