Documentation on applescript for printing in mail

Is there any simple way to tell mail to print a message using applescript
Something like this (setup to run with a rule):
using terms from application "Mail"
          on perform mail action with messages theSelectedMessages for rule theRule
                         repeat with theMessage from 1 to count theSelectedMessages
                 -- Process the current message
                 display dialog "test" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
                 print theMessage without dialog
                         end repeat
          end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
The script has no isses trigering from rules set in mail but I can't for the life of me figure out the right context to get the "print" command to work or even find any documentation on it for mail.
I have tried tons of diffrent varents of what to put after the "print" command but have yet to get it to do anything.
I know that you can save all the contense of an email into a text file then use textedit to print and I have had no issue getting that working but a lot of the emaills I need printed now are formated with graphics with html so all you get is a garbage text file to print.
Also messed with like:
keypress "p" using command down
To try and manuly get it to print from mail but still no luck.
I have tried to get this working on 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8
Ideally I want this to work on 10.7 not sure how much mail has changed between versions when it comes to applescript.
Anyone have any insite for doing this or am I just crazy thinking this should be a simple applescript?

Yes getting the script to auto save out as a PDF would also be an option but as with the print command I have yet to find a way to get it to save out as a full PDF ony ways to save out the text and then have it made into a PDF.
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25865
This is the script I have gotten working but it only really extracts text.
I know it can print attachments properly but I'm looking to print the body of an email that is formated in html.
Notes
Please note, that pergamail currently doesn't support fancy HTML eMail very good. You won't see any pictures or formatted text in the printouts from pergamail. Maybe this can be overcome in the future by parsing the raw source of the eMail messages with a Python/Ruby/Perl script, then extracting and saving the HTML part, and finally printing it with the «lpr»-command. Maybe.
Future
Currently pergamail creates text files from incoming eMail messages, but it would be much better to directly create HTML or PDF documents to get more control over the print layout. previmail alreday uses an advanced HTML template and Colendarshows hot to create a PDF on the fly, so I might just need to invest another weekend to write an improved version of pergamail
As far as im aware it was never really updated to handle html formating properly.
I also played around with previmail script and it does extract the text better out of an html formated email but it still only gets the text.
I am looking for a more 1:1 way of printing an email.

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