Calibrating my monitor with other monitors

I have calibrated my monitor so that output to my personal printer is spot-on. But when I give a CD of digital images that look good on my monitor to someone else, they look washed-out on his/her monitor. Is there a way to standardize monitors, LCD or CRT or TV, Mac and PC?
Also, is there a way of sending a file of my monitor's calibration so that an end user can "plug it in" to their monitor settings so his/her photos can look similar to how I saw them?
Imac Mac OS X (10.3.4)

Each monitor, even lcd monitors are slightly different. So even if you did send a profile,they would still not exactly match. The easiest way is to buy a monitor calibrator and each of you calibrate your monitors with it. That would be the closest match possible.
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