Exporting/Resizing for printing

Help! Please be gentle with me...
I have 100's of images a friend wants me to give them so they can print them.. I don't know what size, some will be 6 x 4 and some might be 8 x 10's
Imported and converted to DNG into LR I image has dimension size of 3264 x 4912 or 4912 x 3264. Some have been cropped.
When exporting them all as a batch, I am confused as to a general settings to use
I am thinking Jpeg Quality 80? Not checking re size to fit and DPI 300.
I have been experimenting and the file sizes exported vary hugely from 456k to 4.29mb for 1 image
Any help is much appriciated
Thanks

Thanks for your replies..... Now I am totally confused! I can't look at LR as I'm importing at the mo....
Ah, the min dimentions to print an 8 x 10 are 2400 x 3000 I believe, so if all of the images are at least that then they would be able to take the memory stick into a printers and get a printed image? what would happen if they chose a 4 x 6 or 5 x 7?
Thanks, really appriciate your help

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