Making a high resolution CD for printing

I'm new to the digital photography world. What is the best way to transfer my high resolution raw files onto a cd that will produce high resolution prints?  Do they remain Raw files or should they get converted to something else?

RAW describes a family of proprietary sensor data file formats.  RAW are not image-formatted files.  They must be converted to an image format file.  The standard for lossless formatting is TIFF.  The standard for lossy formatting (excellent to use when there is a cost to storage and transmission, such as on the Web) is JPG.
No image-format files are sent as they are to a printer.  Your image program uses a print engine and information (or assumptions) about the printer to create a print file that gets sent to the printer.  If you use a commercial printing service, it should tell you the file format it needs.  It can even supply printer profiles for you to use in Aperture to soft-proof your Images (soft-proofing shows you on-screen what your Image should look like when printed on a specific printer and on a specific paper).
There is no best way to transfer files.  You can e-mail them, copy them to a thumb drive and send the drive, put them somewhere on the Web they can be retrieved, etc.
From a practical point of view, your next step is to determine how you are going to print.  You can, of course, print directly from Aperture.
Note that in order to have your on-screen Images look like your printed Images, you will have to use a hardware calibrator and have a display that can be calibrated.  A color-calibrated workflow, from capture to print, is expensive to set up and expensive to maintain.

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