Apparatus are provided for attaching to a composite tape lamination machine in order to remove composite scrap tape material from a backing paper. A lock-up damper 7 comprises a pair of input rotors 71 that rotate integrally, an intermediate plate 73, a turbine hub 43, an output rotor 72, a plurality of first springs 74, and a plurality of second springs 75. In one embodiment, the base stock of the duplicate negotiable instrument has a photosensitive coating applied to a portion of the duplicate negotiable instrument. The programmable ring oscillator generates a first set of continuous write \u201c0\u201d and write \u201c1\u201d pulse signals based on the well-compensated current. Capacitors C1 and C2 are connected in parallel to the drain-source regions of the transistors Q1 and Q2 to increase the total drain-source capacitance and reduce the resonance frequency, so that unwanted electromagnetic wave radiation in a frequency band affecting other electronic devices is suppressed.