Lenovo ThinkPad T470 display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

LaptopMedia.com Highlights Lenovo ThinkPad T470 display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

From: Rossen Pandev 27 June 2017 / 04:20 | 0

Unfortunately, the Lenovo ThinkPad T470’s panel has plenty of shortcomings but the good news is that some of them can be fixed with our custom profiles. The profile packages contain the usual Office work, Design & Gaming and Health-Guard profiles, each of which will improve the overall image quality in certain aspects. You can read more about them here and how to use them. We also suggest reading our dedicated article regarding blue light emissions and PWM and how our custom Health-Guard profile reduces Blue Light’s impact and eliminates the harmful PWM.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T470 has a Full HD IPS panel with just 52% sRGB color gamut coverage, low contrast ratio (680:1), relatively low maximum brightness (245 cd/m2) and optimal color temperature – 6500K.

Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for the Lenovo ThinkPad T470 with 14″ panel manufactured by Innolux with model number N140HCA-EAB featuring FHD (1920 x 1080) resolution and the machine can be found at Amazon.com: Lenovo ThinkPad T470.

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Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

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Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

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Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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Office Work

This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

Left: No Profile | Drag the slider to see the difference | Right: Office Work Profile

Design and Gaming

Left: No Profile | Drag the slider to see the difference | Right: Design & Gaming Profile

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. “Design and Gaming” takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

It also regulates the first steps out of black so you can have even faster reflexes when playing in dark virtual environments…or just see everything in the darkest scenes in movies.

Left: No Profile | Drag the slider to see the difference | Right: Design & Gaming Profile

Health-Guard profile

Left: No Profile | Drag the slider to see the difference | Right: Health-Guard Profile

As for the Health-Guard profile, it reduces the blue light impact and eliminates the PWM. But since the panel uses PWM only below 60 cd/m2, this profile will only be useful for the blue light emissions.

Pro Tip: As the Health-Guard profile simulates paper and has as accurate as possible colors, it could be a great tool for prepress designers!