Lightjet Print Sharpening

I do all of my personal stuff on large format Epson inkjets. No problem there with Lightroom. Great output.
For years I never take a camera to family events to avoid having to supply them...know what I mean. These guys want (for the most part) 4x6s 5x7s of the usual. So to cut to the chase...print sharpening for 4x6s (lets say) on Kodak Royal Matte paper??? What works best for you guys.
Second part of my question deals with "photo sharing" on these services like Kodak Gallery. Since I want control of my output I specify "No retouching" (Perfect Touch) Upload 1800x1200 for 4x6s at 300dpi sharpend for prints size and ready to go. The problem is that if they want to make larger prints I would need to upload another batch at a larger resolution and sharpened accordingly. Things like Perfect touch are all or nothing kind of processes (tonality and sharpening). I could just upload at a larger size to start off with but I have specified "No Perfect Touch" so when they make prints at a selected size they are unsharpened. How do you all handle these situations. Are there "consumer" sharing/printing services out there where one can specify sharpen to size but no tonality retouching.
Maybe I am better off just not taking a camera? Advice with this would be highly appreciated.

>print sharpening for 4x6s (lets say) on Kodak Royal Matte paper??? What works best for you guys.
I generally use the matte sharpening at medium or high and get great results. This is with costco though which uses Fuji crystal archive, but it shouldn't matter much.
>Are there "consumer" sharing/printing services out there where one can specify sharpen to size but no tonality retouching.
For my print ordering website, I use smugmug, which subcontracts with EZprints. They use Kodak Endura and Edge. I just upload full res images, set my default to not let them auto-adjust (which only influences color for them - I have a color managed workflow and get great correspondence between screen and prints) and my clients order the sizes they want. In my test prints it appears like they scale and sharpen themselves but I cannot be entirely sure they might just use a good scaling algorithm for their printers. The prints look surprisingly good without me doing anything. Remember that your clients are FAR more likely to notice color problems than they will notice sharpness. So focus on color! The EZprint lab they use actually color manages (even if you disable the auto-adjust), so you don't even have to convert to a lab profile as you have to do with almost every consumer lab. Prints just come out with great color. I have heard good stuff about zenfolio too but have never tried them.

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