Photoshop: ThinkPad Monitor Profile Defective

[dagordon]

Not sure where exactly to post this, but here goes:

I have a new 14.1" T61p running Vista, and I have Photoshop CS3. When Photoshop starts, it tells me "The Monitor Profile 'Lenovo Thinkpad LCD Monitor' appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software." I have options to "Ignore Profile" and "Use Anyway".

Anyone encountered this? I tried downloading and installing the latest monitor files from here:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62923

(this includes TPLCD.icm, the offending monitor profile file) but I still get the error.

Is it possible that TPLCD.icm is indeed defective? I can just imagine the call to tech support, trying to convince them that the profile is defective... yeah, they'll buy that.

[Jackboot]

I also have this error message appear in Photoshop...did you find a solution?

[Purcy]

Hi, this may be something to look at, as this article says that newer versions of Photoshop come installed with Adobe Gamma which sets up your monitor profile. It says that if a third party monitor profile app is already installed, they can conflict and cause problems. Perhaps Vista has a monitor profile which is conflicting with the Adobe Gamma in PS. It says to disable the Windows Monitor Profile app before using PS:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewCon ... &sliceId=1


Good luck

[libit]

This issue is actually present in Windows XP too. I tried both photoshop elements 5 and photoshop elements 6. Both report invalid ICM profile. I tried reinstalling it but comapring the files, I already had the latest one from lenovo.

I do think that the TPLCD icm profile it actually broken.

By the way, does anyone have an idea what's the difference between the TPLCD and TPFLX profile? Lenovo provides both in the same package and just say: "choose either one", but they are different and they don't say how they are supposed to be used.

[Eduard]

Has anyone had success correcting this message? I recently installed CS3 and now have this problem on my T60 running Vista.

[RealBlackStuff]

By the way, does anyone have an idea what's the difference between the TPLCD and TPFLX profile? Lenovo provides both in the same package and just say: "choose either one", but they are different and they don't say how they are supposed to be used.

TPFLX is for FlexView IPS screens (the beautiful screens that everybody drools over).
TPLCD is for normal LCD screens (XGA, SXGA+ etc. the ones that you and I probably have)

[crashnet]

i was having the same exact problem on windows 7

installed the latest monitor driver (dec 2009) from here
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62923

and away the problem went. No PS complaints.

[derangedhermit]

Ancient thread - but so is my T61 now. And I think I have the ultimate fix for this, short of screen calibration and a custom .icm file. I downloaded the latest monitor drivers and still got the TPLCD.icm error when using PSE8. The other TPLCDxx.icm files do not give this error.

To find the right TPLCD icm file for your screen, open Device Manager, select Monitors, select Thinkpad Display. Right click to get Properties, click on Details tab, and pick Hardware IDs. Mine is LEN4031. This is the same value used in the .inf file for the monitor .icm selection, so you can go look up which .icm file you need in the .inf file. If it is the TPLCD.icm file, there is indeed an error in the header. I verified this by downloading a program from color.org (the ICC folks) called ICC Profile Inspector.

Using ICC Profile Inspector, I could see that the TPLCD color gamut is noticeably different than sRGB. So I decided it was worthwhile to try to fix the file to get more accurate onscreen colors. Opening the program twice, once loading TPLCD.icm and once loading TPLCD60.icm, I copied the relevant data from TPLCD into TPLCD60, and then saved the file as TPLCDT61.icm. No more errors on loading TPLCDT61.icm into ICC PI. I then brought up Color Management in the Control Panel and installed the TPLCDT61.icm as the profile for my screen. Now PSE8 is happy, and so am I.