Patent ID: 8919634

Claim:
A solder ball printing apparatus that fills plural openings formed in a mask with solder balls using a squeegee and mounts the solder balls on plural electrode portions formed on a surface of a substrate facing the mask, the machine comprising: a substrate mounting table on which the substrate is mounted and on the back surface side of which plural hole portions are formed; an XYθ stage which can drive a table on which the substrate mounting table is mounted in a horizontal plane; first vertically-driving means that can vertically drive the table on which the substrate mounting table is mounted; a mask absorption portion which has members including permanent magnets fitted into the plural hole portions formed in the back surface of the substrate mounting table; and second vertically-driving means which can vertically drive the mask absorption portion and is provided under the substrate mounting table, wherein the first vertically-driving means and the second vertically-driving means can be driven independently from each other.