Abstract: A recording medium transporting apparatus is shown including a rowel spur. The rowel spur is designed to control the amount of ink adhering to the rowel spur, thus preventing image quality problems associated with slippage between the rowel spur and the recording medium and smudging of ink that is not adhered to the recording medium, as well as maintaining good transporting of the recording medium. The recording medium transporting apparatus transports a sheet shaped recording medium by using a rowel spur. Each tooth of the rowel spur is formed with a plate-like radially inner portion having a substantially constant thickness in a direction parallel to the central axis of the rowel spur, and a wedge-shaped radially outer portion. The wedge-shaped portion includes at least one slanted axial face that intersects a side of the tooth facing in the direction parallel to the central axis.