Getting sharp photos to print...

Hi all,
I've recently exported a lot of photo's to JPEG and had them printed by an online photo service. My problem is they all look a bit soft. Especially anything that was RAW. Camera JPEG's seem fine in print and visually in Aperture are sharper, I guess from the camera processing. For the RAW files I left on RAW sharpening and I also added edge sharpening to all of them. However, they still look soft in print, even though on screen they seem fine. Is edge sharpening enough for photos that are to be printed? It seems daft if I need to go to Photoshop and apply USM to 100's of pictures before print! My aperture library would be full of tiff's. I guess I could export the JPEG's for print and then USM those in Photoshop but it does seem a lot of hassle.
What do you guys do in this case?
Regards,
Steve

Edge sharpening is OK but can be a little soft. For stuff I really want best results from, I use Nik's Sharpener Pro plug-in.

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