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Hi. I'm having trouble with calibrated displays on multiple macs. In all cases saturated blues look very purple. The easiest way to see it is by looking at the highlight in the system menu which should be blue and instead is purple. Other ways to see it include opening a color bar graphic in both Safari and firefox. One will be blue and the other purple.
Here's the setup:
Both macs are running Snow leopard 10.6.2
both macs were upgraded in place from leopard
colorimeter used is i1 display 2 with iMatch 3.6.3, white point was set to native and gamma to 2.2, used the notebook and LCD modes.
one machine is a 24" iMac
one is a 15" MBP with an external up LCD (both displays have the problem)
I have verified that the contrast setting in the system preferences is set to normal.
I'd appreciate any guidance. I've heard of others with similar sounding problems, but never an answer. I'm trying to decide I'd I should send the calibrator back.
Thanks!

I purchased a Spyder2Express a couple years ago to calibrate my MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.x. When I was running OS 10.5.x up through 10.6.2, Spyder turned the blue color bars in iCal to purple at all times (even though the blue text in iCal stayed blue). I recently upgraded to OS 10.6.3. After the upgrade, iCal blue colors looked as though they should be. Then I ran Spyder2Express, and now the blue color bars in iCal are back to purple at all times. I saw a similar problem posted here a year and a half ago:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1780020
I guess not much has changed. Considering the variety of colorimeters getting an unwanted blue-purple translations, I assume it has to do with Apple and not the calibrators.
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