What is the best format for printing?

Hi,
I want to print my work. my destination is laser printer in RGB mode. I confused rather I should use Photoshop PDF or TIFF. As I understand PDF includes lots of feature that are not relevant to Photoshop. TIFF in the other hand is a simple and none compressive format that should make the job well.
Any input will be welcome.
S

Not to start an argument but I'll give my opinion. Majority of my work is portraits and weddings. As I work on files I save as psd's. Once I'm POSITIVE I'm finished I save as jpgs, highest quality. Those I save to CD and external hard-drive. In the event that I need to do additional work on one of those jpg's, at a later date, I again work it as a psd until finished. I then save it as a tif to avoid any further degrading of that file.
My point, right or wrong, is that I don't see any degrading of files saved once at highest quality jpg. That said, I never (never say never) save as a jpg twice.

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