To provide a method and an apparatus for cleaning a screen printing table which easily and securely clean the top of the screen printing table, and prevent a rise of the cost of a product.

There are provided the method and the apparatus 10 for cleaning the top of the screen printing table 11 after placing a ceramic green sheet with through-holes on the screen printing table and then taking out the ceramic green sheet having conductor paste applied to through-hole wall surfaces or charged in the through-holes. The method include: a step in which a solvent-impregnated part of a roll wiper 13 formed of nonwoven fabric and having a width larger than a width of the ceramic green sheet is abutted on the top of the screen printing table 11, the table is reciprocated and the top of the screen printing table is cleaned while being wetted with a solvent; and a step in which a solvent-unimpregnated part of the roll wiper 13 is abutted on the top of the screen printing table 1, the table is reciprocated and finish cleaning is performed while wiping off the solvent stuck to the table.