Patent ID: 6951175

Claim:
A method for forming printing inspection data which is used in a printing inspection apparatus for inspecting the printed state of the cream solder of a board after a screen printing to form the inspecting data including configuration and position data showing the configurations and positions of solder printing parts in which the cream solder is printed on a printing surface, wherein, in a mask data obtaining step for obtaining element configuration and position data showing the configurations and the positions of the element solder printing parts printed on electrodes for connecting together electronic parts provided on the circuit forming surface of the board by detecting opening parts of a mask plate on the basis of images obtained by picking-up the images of the mask plate used for the screen printing by a camera, when the image pick-up visual field of the camera is sequentially moved to a plurality of visual field positions set to the mask plate in accordance with a prescribed moving sequence to obtain a plurality of images, if an incomplete opening part in which a part of the opening part partly protrudes so that a configuration is not completed is detected from an image obtained in one image pick-up visual field, a process for obtaining data of a complete opening part to which the incomplete opening part belongs is carried out in accordance with the detected result.