Abstract-An improved technique for laser prototyping of microwave circuits in LTCC technology is presented. This builds on previous work which demonstrated that laser machining of conductor layers on unfired LTCC tape could be used to fabricate multilayer microwave circuits without any patterned screens, stencils or masks. The improved process employs post-fire patterning of the top and bottom layer. In this way, sensitive microwave structures like couplers and filters can be fabricated on the outer layers because shrinkage uncertainty is no longer a problem. Track widths and gaps of 30 µm are demonstrated with edge definition of ±2 µm. A stripline coupler is successfully fabricated using this technique. The improved process can produce high precision microwave and millimeterwave components on the outer layers and provides rapid systemin-package prototyping for research and development.