Paste from Indesign cs4 to Illustrator cs4?

Will the styles and effects applied to type and graphics in InDesign CS4 and pasted into Illustrator CS4 print correctly on the press? They appear correctly when pasted into Illustrator.

By printing correctly your main concern is will you have enough resolution. In Indesign you determine the resolution of these effects when printing by choosing Advanced and setting the transparency flattener
If you copy InDesign items with effects and paste this into Illustrator, the effects are turned into embedded graphics. If you copy and paste this into Photoshop at 300dpi and look at 100% view, there does appear to be some pixelization so whatever resolution these embed graphics are turned into I would say they are short of 300dpi (someone else please chime in if you know how to determine the exact resolution these are).
You can try exporting your InDesign Effects graphics to a press quality PDF, and then importing that into Illustrator.
The other issue may need to consider is if you have spot color inks for your job, and will your graphic be utilizing these spots if needed.
If you are just using drop shadow, I would recomend you copy and paste the type, and in Illustrator add a drop shadow, so you can have more control. FI you are using bevel and emboss, Illustrator does not have that so export you graphic to press quality PDF in that case.

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