Patent ID: 7630536

Claim:
A printing inspection apparatus for inspecting a printing state of cream solder printed through pattern holes on a substrate after screen printing, said apparatus comprising: image pick-up means for picking up an image of said substrate; printing judging means for making a go/no-go judgment of the printing state based on an image pick-up result of said substrate from said image pick-up means and inspection data needed to perform a printing inspection; display means for displaying a judgment result; and grouping means for classifying and grouping solder element shape and position data corresponding to a plurality of the pattern holes into at least one data group which is grouped according to a grouping condition apart from other data group, wherein the grouped data is identified by the grouping condition, wherein said display means displays the judgment result in connection with the data groups, and wherein said grouping means comprises grouping condition choosing means for choosing the grouping condition and a grouping frame for enclosing images of only the pattern holes corresponding to the chosen grouping condition.