Sharpening workflow  sharedink book

I am just not sure how much to sharpen in lightroom for printing (i am going to print a book using sharedink)
i also use the fred miranda plug in for sharpening in photoshop
in lightroom shouldl i leave it as the default setting
use the presets
go to zero?
then do a little in photoshop?
or do it all in lightroom
fyi,the subject matter is scenery and birds although i don't think that matters.
thanks diana

Yeah that's what I do. I export to a prophotoRGB file that I open in PS, where I scale, sharpen and convert to the final profile of the labs I use. Strangely enough,
I just today wrote up a little workflow for this. I only do this for larger prints. For small prints I just send sRGB files to the lab directly from Lightroom's output.

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