Patent ID: 8857329

Claim:
A screen printing apparatus receiving a substrate conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction from a substrate entry position, screen printing on the substrate, and delivering the substrate after screen printing from a substrate exit position that is set on a downstream side in the predetermined conveying direction, the substrate entry position and the substrate exit position being set asymmetrically with respect to an apparatus center axis along a specific direction orthogonal to the predetermined conveying direction, the screen printing apparatus comprising: at least one printing execution unit including a screen mask, the printing execution unit configured to perform screen printing on the substrate and setting a printing position; at least one substrate support table configured to move along the specific direction, to hold the substrate conveyed from the substrate entry position, to execute print-process at the printing position that is set by the printing execution unit, and to deliver the substrate after printing from the substrate exit position; a table drive mechanism configured to move the substrate support table at least from the substrate entry position to the substrate exit position along the specific direction in a reciprocating manner; a printing execution unit drive mechanism configured to drive the printing execution unit along the specific direction; and a control unit configured to control the printing execution unit drive mechanism so that the printing execution unit including the screen mask is driven in order to set the printing position on a substrate conveying path needed for the substrate support table to move from the substrate entry to the substrate exit.