Problem with PDF viewing Colors not showing correctly (or black and white)

My iMac and my Macbook are both not showing the pictures in a PDF correctly. My collegue who uses a Macbook has no issues.
Im using version 10.7.5 on my macs.
I have tried using the standard ' Preview' as wel as two different free PDF vieuwers from the Appstore.
Also the sender of the document has no issues as wel with the PDF document she made with Indesign.
I'm sure it has to do with my computers, but where do I have to look?
Thanks for helping.
Anything that might be helpfull.

Since InDesign documents are truly PDF compliant I would, were I you, use a truly PDF compliant viewer - Adobe Reader.
To learn how Preview can really screw up a PDF document (and this is just a simple form) see -> http://khkonsulting.com/2013/06/preview-app-killer-of-pdf-files/.
Clinton

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