Applescript help - print specific file type

I keep getting error messages when trying to get this script to print only the PDFs in my Distiller "Out" folder:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "Finder"
if file type is "PDF" then
print
end if
end tell
end adding folder items to
If I leave out the "if/then…PDF" part it works fine, but Distiller spits out a log file that it keeps trying to print.
I'm no Applescript genius (obviously), but I am stumped on the logic here. Any ideas?

Hi, George -
...discovered that the file type is 4 characters...
Expanding on that a bit -
In OS 9, all File Type and Creator codes are exactly four characters long. These characters can include 'special' characters, such as spaces as well as others; and case (upper case or lower case) is important.
In the case of PDF's, the Type code is PDF - note that the final character is a space.

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