A screen printing apparatus includes a mask and a printing head. The mask has a first opening provided in a first region, and a second opening provided in a second region which is thicker than the first region. The printing head fills the first opening with a paste in a state where a substrate is in contact with the first region, and fills the second opening with the paste in a state where the substrate is in contact with the second region.

A screen printing apparatus comprises print executing parts 20A, 20B, first and second substrate loading parts En1, En2 and a substrate unloading part Ex, and first and second substrate support tables 10A, 10B for supporting a substrate W to enable printing thereon by the print executing parts 20A, 20B. The first substrate support table 10A moves between a first receiving position where the substrate W loaded from the first substrate loading part En1 is received, and a sending position where the substrate W is unloaded from the substrate unloading part Ex. The second substrate support table 10B moves between a second receiving position where the substrate W loaded from the second substrate loading part En2 is received, and the sending position. The print executing parts 20A, 20B are respectively placed at positions on the substrate support tables 10A, 10B where printing on the substrate W is enabled.

A screen printing system includes a first substrate supply apparatus, a second substrate supply apparatus arranged in an upstream process side of the first substrate supply apparatus, and a screen printing apparatus that prints paste on a first substrate supplied from the first substrate supply apparatus and a second substrate supplied from the second substrate supply apparatus. In response to a request from the screen printing apparatus, the first substrate supply part supplies the first substrate and the second substrate supply part supplies the second substrate. The second substrate is carried in the screen printing apparatus by a conveyance mechanism included in the first substrate supply apparatus.

The application relates to a printing device for printing onto substrates, in particular solar cells, wafers or printed circuit boards, including a squeegee means and including at least one printing table, wherein the squeegee means is arranged above the printing table, and including at least one conveying means, by means of which a substrate can be transported away in each case to a printing nest below the squeegee direction and away out of the printing nest after the printing process has taken place. It is provided that the printing table has several conveying means, which are arranged side by side and aligned parallel to one another and which each have at least one printing nest, and that the squeegee means has at least one squeegee, which can be moved over each printing nest in order to print successively onto the substrates, which are arranged in the printing nests.

A screen printing apparatus includes a mask and a printing head. The mask has a first opening provided in a first region, and a second opening provided in a second region which is thicker than the first region. The printing head fills the first opening with a paste in a state where a substrate is in contact with the first region, and fills the second opening with the paste in a state where the substrate is in contact with the second region.

A screen printing system includes a screen printing machine. The screen printing machines includes a screen printing unit with a screen. A platen arm assembly includes a platen configured to move in a telescoping direction from at least a first position where the platen is positioned under the screen to a second position that is different from the first position.

A method of screen printing positionally synchronizes a plurality of pallet assemblies on a first screen printing machine with a plurality of pallet assemblies on a second screen printing machine. A screen printed garment having a properly aligned first image received from the first screen printing machine is transferred on a portion of one of the pallet assemblies on the first screen printing machine to one of the plurality of pallet assemblies on the second printing machine. The properly aligned first image on the garment is in proper positional alignment with a screen printing head on the second screen printing machine such that a second image complimentary to the first image is printed on the garment in proper position on the garment relative to the first image without user intervention to positionally locate the first image relative to the screen printing head on the second machine.

Apparatus for producing three-dimensional screen-printed workpieces, in particular 3D screen printing machine, with a printing device for the layer-by-layer production of at least one screen-printed workpiece in a plurality of printing operations and with at least one workpiece carrier for at least one screen-printed workpiece, wherein the printing device has at least one printing table plate being formed separately from the workpiece carrier and on which the workpiece carrier can be positioned for carrying out a printing process, an upper printing mechanism with a printing screen and a position detection device for detecting the position of the workpiece carrier, wherein the printing device is configured for fine adjustment and the fine adjustment comprising the position detection of the workpiece carrier by the position detection device and the adjustment of the relative position and/or relative alignment between the workpiece carrier and the printing device dependent on the position detection.

A screen mask inspection device inspects a screen mask including a screen opening that forms a printing pattern, and includes: an inspection control device that detects solder position information of a solder paste printed on a substrate via the screen opening, and based on the solder position information, determines whether a quality of printing using the screen mask is good or bad, the solder position information being based on an amount of positional misalignment of the solder paste actually printed on the substrate relative to a predetermined reference position.

The present invention relates to a batch alignment device for screen printers and a batch alignment method using the same, and can simultaneously, collectively, and quickly align multiple printed circuit boards in multiple alignment holes formed in one alignment jig to enable components to be simplified, the weight of a device to be reduced, production process and time to be shortened, and productivity to be improved and, accordingly, enable mass production, and can quickly implement high-quality printing, which corresponds to the alignment jig and a printing pattern of the mask, on the multiple printed circuit boards, simultaneously with completion of the alignment of the multiple printed circuit boards by aligning only the X-axes and Y-axes on the planes of the printed circuit boards in the alignment jig in a state where a mask and the alignment jig are aligned.