Iphoto book sharpening for print

Hello everyone:
I am planning on sending an iPhoto album to print to Apple. I have one doubt regarding my final workflow step, which is the output sharpening: using either Aperture3 or Capture NX2 what are the most appropriate output sharpening values ana metods (for printing of course) to get a properly sharpened output and not a flat result or one that is oversharpened and may contain halos and other artefacts? Are techs from Apple applying any sharpening algorithms to the albums before printing?
If any of you have experince with this, I wait for your feedback.
Cheers!

Do you plan to sharpen each photo in the book with Aperture or Capture NX2? Unless you see photos which have obvious reasons for sharpening there's really nothing you need to do. Just make sure none of the pictures have the Adobe RGB color profile.
iPhoto creates a PDF file of the book for uploading and printing. You can preview that PDF file by Control-clicking on the background of the All Pages window and selecting Preview Book from the contextual menu.
You can save the preview to compare to the book when you receive it.
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