Sharpening images for Photobook

I've been wavering back and forth about the best course of action to sharpen images for my photo books that will be printed on an HP Indigo at Sharedink. Do you think the below steps will yield good results?
So far my process has been:
Edit images in Lightroom (color correction, exposure adjustments, and capture sharpening, etc)
Output full sized tiffs (no output sharpening) to a folder and then import them into my Indesign layout.
Once finalized, I run a script to resize all images in InDesign to 100%.
I'd like to apply some output sharpening to these re-sized images and was wondering if importing the images into Lightroom and then exporting them with output sharpening set to Matte Low Setting would yield good results. I don't need a ton of sharpening. I'm just concerned that the Lightroom sharpening is not optimized for Halftone output.
Thanks for any advice.

Hello,
just a guess: Aperture does sharpening during export based on size and designated output process. Just try to export to mail in different sizes: You always get a properly sharpened image, e.g. when exporting to 320px or to 2640px. And from my tests it looks like the images in the book-pdfs are treated the same way - althought edge width of the sharpening tool seems to be somewhat altered to reflect the 300DPI for book output vs. the 72dpi for Internet (mail) output.
Just a quick remark on sharpening: It just will not do to just sharpen the images independent of output size and resolution, as it is described in an earlier posting in this thread. As soon as an image is scaled more than 120% up or 80% down, dramatic quality losses are inevitable.
Regards,
Dieter

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