Creating a Workflow to print PDFs with certain attributes

I work in the media dept of a college and am looking for an easier way to print students coursework which they export from Adobe Indesign CS4 as a PDF file.
I have managed to enable printing all PDFs on Tabloid extra paper from my network printer, by setting the default print settings. I have the printer in my dock so all I need to do is drag the PDFs in a folder to the printer icon on the dock and it prints all PDFs.
This is great, however I would like to have more control over this process. If possible I would like to print only the PDFs that have a certain format.
The students are supposed to export there PDFs from Indesign with the "spreads" checkbox checked. This produces a document that has a number of A4 sized pages in portrait and 1 A3 sized page in landscape.
I want to know if there is anyway of printing of the correctly formatted PDFs, whilst skipping the incorrectly formatted PDFs, without having to go through all the PDFs and check the formatting before printing?
Any help or ideas on this would be great.
Thanks

Hi There
Thank you for your response.
I managed to create a workflow that can be started automatically upon the creation of a folder in my document library. I then added an Impersonation step where I used the "Remove list Item Permissions" & "Add List Item Permissions" actions.
The challenge I am faced with is on the Remove Permissions action, I want to remove all inherited permissions for all existing users and only leave Users with Full Control. Is there a way to select All Existing Users in one function and perhaps
pass that as a "Selected Users" parameter? Currently I have to select the users/groups individually and there are over 100 existing users/groups to choose from.
Any thoughts on how I can work around this?
regards Tibz

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