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Most photo shops print from 8bit jpeg files as printers as well as screens are 8bit devices. The advantage of the 16 bits is only seen when editing, you have more room to massage the photo in PS if you work in 16bits. Less information is destroyed. The output world is mostly 8 bits.
So you go from
RAW ----developer--> 16bit Tiff ---edit PS--> 16 bit Tiff ---convert--> 8bit output
To make it more clear if you are sure the RAW doesn't need any editing at all then you can just convert it to 8 bits for printing.
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