Applescript for printing pdf to printer

Anyone that can help me with this:
I need to print a pdf file to a printer from filemaker (applescript i guess)
The filemaker records holds all information needed:
The filename and the path to the pdf file
The number of copies needed
The printer to send it to (different because of duplex simplex)
Anyone who have a script i can implement ?

Assuming you can get the data out of Filemaker (I don't use Filemaker so my example might not be right), it's pretty easy to print PDF files. This should get you started:
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
tell current record
-- the syntax here might not be right!
set theJob to contents of cell "Job"
set thePrinter to contents of cell "printer"
end tell
end tell
tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
set current printer to thePrinter
open alias theJob
end tell
The first part of the script extracts the data from Filemaker (check this, please), then calls Printer Setup Utility to change the current printer to the printer named in thePrinter (which should be the printer name as defined in Printer Setup, and it opens the PDF file (assuming that 'theJob' is a full path to the file itself.
For the number of copies element it's probably easiest to just wrap the 'open' command in a repeat n times block. There is also a print command in Printer Setup which takes an optional with properties but couldn't get it to work in my quick test here.

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