Calender arrangement and method for treating a web of material

Calender arrangement having a shoe roll and a backing roll forming a nip therebetween through which a material web is guided, the shoe roll having a revolving shell which can be loaded with the aid of a pressure shoe toward the counter roll and the position of the pressure shoe can be changed, characterized in that the pressure shoe (9) is parallel to the axis (15) of the counter roller (3) in a position displaceable in which it only is partly in register with the backing roll (3), wherein the extended nip (4) has a web guide is connected upstream (21) with an offset (a) of the material web (5) parallel to the axis (15) of the counter roller (3) is adjustable.