Silk screen on an exposed pad with no solder mask

[itdontgo]

Just realised this should be in here:

Hi,

Does anyone know if the silk screen is applied after the PCB is solder levelled/plated so that a silk screen can be applied to what would normally be a pad?

You obviously would get a DRC error if you put text on a pad but could a PCB be produced this way intentionally.  It's a pad that is not intended to be soldered.

[wraper]

PCB house will remove any silkscreen over exposed copper. If you ask pCB service to to this, might be possible. However adhesion might be not good.

[amyk]

Usually it's an error but apparently some of them will print silkscreen over pads if you really want them to:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/removing-goofed-up-silk-screen-from-pads/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/manufacture/silkscreen-clean-up-from-iteadseeedetc/