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I'm not sure if this is an Illustrator issue, but since I'm using Illustrator, I'm hoping maybe someone can help.
I made a graphic in Illustrator that I exported. I then put that on a flash drive, took it to another computer, and imported it into software called Lectora (not Adobe related). However, my colors changed greatly. The orange wasn't too bad, but the purple is a huge difference. My company has specific colors, so it's a huge deal to make it the correct shade of purple.
I don't think it's the software because if you open the graphic on the computer in general, the colors are different. I tried on a third computer, and the colors are still different, so that brings me back to some setting on my original computer.When I open the graphic on my computer outside of Adobe, the colors are what I want.
The document is RGB, 72ppi. I tried exporting as png, tif, jpeg, bmp, gif (transferred to photoshop), 72ppi, 300ppi, etc.
Also if it matters, from my original computer to the printer, it prints the different shade of purple rather than what i see on my screen.

Carla,
There may be differences in the colours on the different (and possibly differently calibrated) monitors (and between different applications).
There is probably a significant difference in colours between RGB and CMYK; unless you are using a non PostScript printer (driver), the printer needs CMYK; you should create the CMYK colours by creating a version (the basic print version) in CMYK Color Mode.
Normally, if you want to make sure that you can print the colours in CMYK, you should start with CMYK.
Obviously, if the intended (main) use is for screen/web and the print is only secondary, you may work in RGB and live with the colour differences in print; or you may use a (non PostScript) printer with more inks.
Yet another option is to use spot colours, but that is a further complication.
Have you used colour management?
You may start reading the basics here (the articles also apply to Illy, though written for PS).
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps8_colour/ps8_1.htm
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/home.htm

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