Any snake with a pure white area or ring, typically near the tail end of the snake, can be called a ringer. They seem to pop up randomly from time to time in ball pythons; however, in my experience, het pieds, fires, cinnamons and champagnes seem to have more of a chance of being ringers. As far as a ringer being a het pied it's almost like the "pied markers", a het pied can be a ringer but it doesn't mean a ringer is a het pied.
Here are a some examples:
Fire ringer
A cinnamon lesser poss. het pied
A fire ringer breeding with my extreme ringer champagne
A fire extreme ringer champagne
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