An apparatus for adjusting pressure rollers and/or cutting knives includes driven pull rollers or driven pull and knife rollers extending over the web width arranged opposite the pressure rollers and/or cutting knives and at least two threaded spindles, which are used to axially adjust the pressure rollers and/or the cutting knives simultaneously or immediately one after another. During the axial adjustment, some of the pressure rollers and/or the cutting knives remain stationary, some of the pressure rollers and/or cutting knives are adjusted by a first adjustment travel and/or some of the pressure rollers and/or cutting knives being adjusted by a second adjustment travel.