Thanks to a settlement announced last Thursday, 3M Company will have to change the labels of their tape products and pony up nearly $700,000 for allegedly misrepresenting the physical dimensions of their tape by six percent. 3M was accused of mislabeling its products by Fresno, California’s Division of Measure Standards, which brought suit against the company in 2006.

The department found that 3M was shaving six percent off its tape products (the company’s advertised one-inch tape actually came out to 0.94 of an inch), violating the state and federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, according to the Fresno County deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case. As part of the settlement, 3M agreed to pay $600,000 in civil fees, $75,000 to a state trust fund benefiting various California weights and measures offices and $18,000 to the Department of Measurement and Standards, according to one report.

As with most settlements, 3M didn’t admit or deny guilty, but in this case it won’t be that easy to get off the hook: one only needs a ruler to figure out that they were, in fact, misrepresenting the size of their tape. The company agreed to remove the one-inch and other inaccurate labels from its tape products. Crisis averted.