Abstract: A device for mounting an ink roller made up of a cylindrical ink carrier body and having on its ends, end-disks. The diameter of these end-disks is larger than the ink roller body. Such ink rollers are used in printing devices in order that the printing types characters are inked prior to the actual printing process. To simplify the handling of such ink rollers, especially when exchanging a used ink roller for a new ink roller while at the same time avoiding the smudging of fingers or clothing of service personnel, the device is provided with two U-shaped cups that are interconnected and whose widths--at the open ends--are equal to the width of the new ink roller. The depth of these cups is equal to the diameter of the end disks of the new ink roller, and the cups are provided on both their sides with areas which act as clamps for the end disks and whereby the width of one cup--in its entire dept--is constant; while the width of the other cup increases from the open end in the direction of the closed-off end.