摘要 |
There is provided a screen printing apparatus and a screen printing method which can implement printing work with good efficiency while securing a good printing quality in screen printing intended for an upper surface of a substrate and a bottom surface of a recess portion which is opened in the upper surface. In screen printing in which a paste is printed on a cavity substrate, as a printing object, which has an upper surface printing area and a bottom surface printing area on a bottom surface of a recess portion sequentially in two stages by an upstream side printing portion and a downstream side printing portion which have closed-type squeegee mechanisms 36(1), 36(2), respectively, which each include a first sliding contact plate 54A and a second sliding contact plate 54B, when the bottom surface area becomes a printing object, the paste remaining in a depressed portion on an upper surface side of a fitting portion is scooped up by the sliding contact plate which is situated at a rear side in a squeegeeing direction for removal therefrom, whereas when the upper surface printing area becomes a printing object, the paste adhering to an upper surface of an upper surface printing mask is scraped off by the sliding contact plate which is situated at a rear side in a squeegeeing direction. |