Export Sharpening / LR to Photoshop

I'm exporting some tiffs that will be printed by someone else through Photoshop. Photoshop doesn't seem to have a print sharpening feature the way LR does. So, do you think I should export my tiffs with or without output sharpening? (the files already have some capture sharpening) Thanks
Michael

Hi,
As the output sharpening remains to be an issue on LR/LR2, and the PKSharpener was mentioned above, I would like to affer an other alternative: LR/Mogrify and LR2/Mogrify written by Timothy Armes. Personally, I find that to provide much better results in both terms of scaling and sharpening in export.
Too bad that Adobe does not offer true control over the export sharpening (I would expect that to be in 300 software...), but on the other hand, good that they offer (especially in LR2) an opportunity to use export plugins.

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