Apparatus for producing blanks for an inner wrapper of a cigarette group, in particular within an apparatus for producing cigarette packs, wherein the blanks can be severed, by means of a cutting device, from a continuous material web, which is provided with imprints at predetermined intervals, and wherein a printed-mark reader is provided for checking the position of the imprints, and wherein the web position can be altered in order to compensate for incorrect positioning of the imprints, and wherein the material web, prior to the blanks being severed, can be guided through a stamping device, with stamped formations or stamped regions, which are spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of the material web, being applied in the process, and wherein the web position can be altered by a drive means, in order to compensate for incorrect positioning, whereas the material web can be guided freely through the stamping device, characterized by the following features: a) a recess is formed in a certain region or regions of the circumference merely of one stamping roller of a pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers of the stamping device, such that the material web does not undergo stamping in a region corresponding to the recess as it runs through the pair of stamping rollers, wherein the other stamping roller of the pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers has no corresponding recess, b) the stamping rollers (44, 45) have a greater width than the material web, and therefore the stamping rollers (44, 45) engage with one another even in the region of the recess, in which the material web is guided freely between the stamping rollers (44, 45), c) a drive roller is arranged upstream of the pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers in order to advance the material web at least in the region of the stamping device, wherein a regulatable drive means is provided for the drive roller, it being possible for the drive speed of said drive means to be altered in order to compensate for incorrect positioning of the imprint, d) the printed-mark reader is arranged in the region of the drive roller, which is arranged upstream of the pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers. a) a recess is formed in a certain region or regions of the circumference merely of one stamping roller of a pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers of the stamping device, such that the material web does not undergo stamping in a region corresponding to the recess as it runs through the pair of stamping rollers, wherein the other stamping roller of the pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers has no corresponding recess, b) the stamping rollers (44, 45) have a greater width than the material web, and therefore the stamping rollers (44, 45) engage with one another even in the region of the recess, in which the material web is guided freely between the stamping rollers (44, 45), c) a drive roller is arranged upstream of the pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers in order to advance the material web at least in the region of the stamping device, wherein a regulatable drive means is provided for the drive roller, it being possible for the drive speed of said drive means to be altered in order to compensate for incorrect positioning of the imprint, d) the printed-mark reader is arranged in the region of the drive roller, which is arranged upstream of the pair (35, 52) of stamping rollers.