The invention relates to an apparatus for the
coating of a substrate, in particular of a circuit board, with a material application device for applying a
coating material and with a gas supplying device for the supply of a gaseous medium, the material application device having an inner tubular element, the
gas supply device having an outer tubular element which is arranged coaxially to the inner tubular element and surrounds the latter, so as to form between the outer and the inner tubular element a
gas supply duct which has an annular orifice at one end, the supply duct being configured so that the gaseous medium flows out, parallel to the
coating material, through the annular orifice, in order, when it impinges on the substrate, to displace the applied coating material and thereby distribute it over the area. The apparatus is distinguished in that the material application device has a jet valve which, in a first operating mode, carries out a jetted supply of material into the inner tubular element.