Exporting An iPhoto To Make A LARGE Poster Print

After a bit of work on my photo in Iphoto, I want to get it printed as a poster 30 inches wide by 20 inches tall.
I have read through heaps of FAQs about pix and DPI ... being an old newspaper & magazine man I am fully conversant with Dots Per Inch, but that has little relevance today.
What is the 'best / most efficient' way to export the photo so I can take it to a professional print shop and achieve a pin-sharp poster that looks like it's been taken by an expert?
Specific settings ( Jpeg / TIF ) (Custom ????? px ) would be appreciated.

The easiest method would just to use the Apple online photo service. No exporting required... just select the pict, choose the 20x30 size, and the picture is uploaded.
As for best quality, as already stated, if your original image is a JPG, then all you can do is send the highest rez of that jpg. If you will be doing more posters in the future, you can set your camera to take those picts in raw and then import that raw into iPhoto.
An important point here is that a poster will not be viewed (by the human eye) at close range like a photo, so the dpi can be lower than a normal photo, and it will look just fine from 5ft away.
Again, the painless way to handle this is just to send the highest rez image you have to Apple/Kodak via the built in service in iPhoto. Your poster arrives at your door in a week.

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