METHOD FOR CLEANING PRINTING SCREEN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sufficiently and stably remove a printing paste adhered to the lower face of a printing screen and left in a printing paste supply hole. SOLUTION: The cleaning of the printing screen is realized by precedingly sucking the printing paste 3 by a cleaning part by a suction area 7 from a suction port 8 to a sliding contact part of the printing screen 4 by a wiping material 5, in addition to it, by cleaning by succeedingly raking-off and removing the printing paste 3 by a cleaning part by a back-up releasing part 5a, in which the back-up by a back-up member 6 is released, after the printing paste 3 to be sucked is stored in a pocket 11 to be formed by drawing the wiping material 5 into the suction port 8 or by reversing the order of the processes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO