Ical print scripting

Hi, i was wondering if anyone knows how to write a script to make ical print out my scedual for the week. I have looked up scrpts for prtining and saving and all that stuff and i can get them to run both as applications and scripts in new events in my calender but i do not know how to make it print out the scedual. I assume that i would have to first save the calender and then print it so im lost. Thanks for the help -mike
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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[Edit]
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