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These are hard or soft rings on a roll of film which caused by a very slight gauge (thickness) variations in the film. Often gauge bands do not result in any wrapper failure. If a failure does occur it will result from a wrinkle in the band area. It will appear as a slit starting between the prestretch rolls.
