Batch print multiple pdfs

I have a folder full of PDF's and I want to print them all. Is there some way of doing this is an a slick way? If I choose all, then right click "print", all it does it open all the documents in Preview, but does not print. In fact it hung up my machine after opening 50 documents and I had to reboot.
By the way I did search for this topic before, and other people have asked it but it seems no one answers them. I hope there is an answer.

Here's a really simple way but, you'll need to use Acrobat Pro to do it:
Open Acrobat (6 or 7) and go to the file menu,
"New PDF From Multiple Files".
Select all the files you want to print, put them in order if you like. Make 1 big PDF out of them and then print the resulting PDF.
It's not 1 button, but this does work.

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