Print an AI-file using PDF

hello,
I'm an illustrator working on CS3 and using especially different brushes in my artwork.
What I am asking myself (and never got a specific answer) is : when I prepare my AI-files for the agency who will print them, I save them as high quality PDF-files with the Illustrator CS3 application and not Acrobat Professionnel and I'm surprised, these PDF-files are made of about only 100 - 500ko!! (when the illustration has about 2 or 10 or even 20 Mo). Can this really be enough for quality for printing?
thank you very much, dorothea

thank you for your answers, I will just try to say it more exactly (sorry my english is not so good) :
the artwork I do are illustrations that contain brush lines, color and also different "gradations" (but no high resolution images)
and when I save them as PDF files - with the PDF Preset - for printing, their sizes are about 100KB (Ko in french :-) - the AI files are 20MB in size.
So as Doug says this can be just the size of an vectorized logo I feel reassured, but still remains a little question is it enogh quality for saving perfectly the "colour gradations"
thanks again, dorothea

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