300 DPI images for print?

Hi All,
I'd like to create a promotional leaflet for my activity, where I want to place the picture of the discounted products I'm selling.
what is the minimum resolution I need to (professionally) print them? I understand that images found on the internet can't be used (as they are 72dpi and they would appear pixelated etc.)
I've tried to look at the websites of the companies that produce those products, but couldn't find any high resolution one.
Any suggestions (apart from asking them directly for images, that would take a lot of time?)
thanks,
Patrick

easily controllable color management
True, but in my opion spot 'colour' should not be supported as it it in fact not a colour specification in the first place. Typically, a spot 'colour' is represented as a name callout in the page description and the in separations process the CTP plane/imagesetter plate is rendered with whatever density is defined, but there is no concept of the colour as determined in a device independent colour model.
Colors may or may not be in cmyk.
You mean colourants, not colours. The colourants will be as in the file placed into Pages, or as defined the (limited) colourant controls in Pages. The colours will be as defined in the ICC source colour space embedded in files placed into Pages, and if none is embedded then as assigned by the system level service for the placed colourant model.
tests showed too much ink being laid down
The ink limiting is independent of system level services and is solely dependent on the TRCs and LUTs in the ICC destination colour space either embedded as PDF/X-3 OutputIntent or selected in the driver-level interface. The ink limiting that is part and parcel of the ICC PRTR Printer profile has asymmetric ink limiting internally (e.g. a higher ink limit for Relative Colourimetric than for Perceptual or Saturation) or if the driver is set up to use the wrong ICC PRTR Printer profile as in using a profile with a high ink limit for a coated substrate when in fact an uncoated substrate that should have a low ink limit is loaded into the printing system.
If you use the big commercial applications like Quark XPress and Adobe's Creative Suite they do not use Apple's print engine and completely bypass the issue.
Precisely the same problems with ink limiting will occur in Adobe InDesign (any version) and QuarkXPress (any version) if the user selects the incorrect ICC PRTR Printer profile for the current configuration of the printing system, or if the user selects a correct ICC PRTR Printer profile that internally has a problem such as asymmetric ink limiting even if it should have symmetric ink limiting across the internal tables.
Otherwise, it is correct that Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress have commands to control transparency flattening for PDF/X-3 such that spline illustration, spline composition, and pixel photography can be interactively processed. The system level service in Apple Mac OS X is a meat cleaver and not a surgeon's scalpel, but in the midterm and longterm transparency flattening should be transferred from the designer to the RIP operator who is the one who controls the configuration of the rasterisation rendering. However, the RIP developers will then compete as to the 'application intelligence' for transparency flattening, and since they will do it differently there will for the indefinite future always be an option to control flattening as well at the designer's desk as at the RIP, with complications consequent on either scenario.
/hh
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Thanks for the comments thus far! I forgot to mention that all of my images are .jpegs (300dpi).
I've reviewed my "Print Booklet" settings and under my "Images- Send Data," I have "All" selected as opposed to "Optimized Subsampling." My Effective Resolution is also set at 300 dpi.
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