Calibrating My Second Monitor

I have recently bought a new LG W2452T to go with my 20" iMac. The colors are slightly different. I know it would be very difficult to actually match the two displays bye eye (system preferences) but is there any other way of matching the two displays colors. I would like my LG to have the colors of my iMac display.
Thanks In Advance!

It depends on how precise you need it to be. I have a an old but excellent 21" CRT as a second display (actually use it as the primary display with my iMac's 17" LCD as secondary), and that's about as different as you can get from the iMac's LCD. Now, I don't do pro level work that requires precise color matching, but I think I got a pretty good match using the built-in Color calibration in System Preferences Displays mode. I did not try to make the two displays match by comparing back and forth, I just did the same steps, in +Expert Mode+, on each display separately. Then on the +Target Gamma+ and +Target White Point+ steps, I adjusted on the second display by comparing to the first display (after I had that one the way I liked it).

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