Batch Print multiple files in one click

I created an Automator app that allows the user to:
1) Ask for multiple Finder Items
2) Print Finder items
Problem is that when it runs I have to click the OK button in the print dialogue once for each individual file. If I run this workflow for 80 files to be printed I have to hit the OK button 80 times! I just want to automate this action too, but cannot find a way to do this.
Is there a way to click just once and have all files printed the same way?
TIA

Thanks for helping.
They are all .ods files created by OpenOffice macros from our intranet based MySQL database that are saved to our Tiger Server fileserver. We run a report from the intranet php interface which opens a OpenOffice Spreadsheet macro file, this then populates the template file with each data record one at a time that have been called directly from the SQL query, and then saves the files in a folder it creates for the purpose. It's a bit long winded, but it works. Neither Excel nor Numbers offers this ability.
After the files have been saved they need to be printed. The Automator app I created does nearly all I want, but is not 100% automated as each separate file needs an individual 'OK' button press, which is annoying.

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