and form a copy on the image carrier wherein the supporting plate has a part which in initial position of the carriage is located prior to a first strip considered in direction of carriage movement and is bent downwardly relative to the main part of the supporting plate application_number US 34217182 A description a copying arrangement in accordance with the present invention has a housing identified by reference numeral 1 and a carriage 2 which is supported on the housing 1 movable in longitudinal direction a b the drive of the carriage 2 is connected in a known manner with the aid of magnetic clutches or the like with the drive of the arrangement wherein the clutches are controlled by a central control unit 3 in dependence upon the actuation of a copying switch 4 in correspondence with the respective copying cycle during the movement of the carriage in the direction a a picture or image of an original supported on the carriage 2 is illuminated by a scanning system 5 in direction of the arrow c onto a rotary image recording cylinder 7 the illumination of the original 6 is carried out by a fluorescent or phosphorescent pipe 8 prior to the illumination point the image recording cylinder 7 is uniformly charged by a corona discharge device 9 an electrostatic latent image or picture produced by the illumination is developed by a developing device 10 in the shown example a.