Abstract: An apparatus for transporting a band-shaped recording medium in an electrographic printing or copying device, includes a drive cylinder, a pressure cylinder mounted displaceably relative to the drive cylinder, and a pressure spring effecting a contact pressure of the pressure cylinder on the drive cylinder, wherein the recording medium is transported between the drive cylinder and the pressure cylinder by friction, and the drive cylinder adjoins the recording medium with a contact surface, and wherein the force effect of pressure spring is divided into a first, radial force component acting perpendicularly to the contact surface and a second force component received by a guide face guiding the pressure cylinder.