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[Buckie]

Oh yeah. I kinda forgot that there's no SETwithCSS. So you're right.

[Buckie]

It was a surprisingly simple task. Can anyone test it for me as I have no printer right now?
The script is like this:
Save Records as PDF filemac:/Macintosh HD/tmp/printout.pdf
Perform AppleScript do shell script "lpr /tmp/printout.pdf"

[Buckie]

And to finish this thread, yes, the method above works. It's best to find out the drive name beforehand, so...

Set Variable [$volumename; Value:Get ( SystemDrive )]
Save Records as PDF filemac:$volumename/tmp/printout.pdf
Perform AppleScript do shell script "lpr /tmp/printout.pdf"

There are various options you can pass to lpr, like duplex printing or rear tray printing.
You can find out all the options for your printer by typing

lpoptions -l

in the terminal and then look for pairs that look like
Printer's Specific Value/Human-readable description: *value1 value2 value3
Then you set Printer's Specific Values using lpr's -o flag like so

lpr -o EPIJ_FdSo=0 -o Another_option=2 file_name_to_print

with the first being a string telling Epson B-300 printer to source paper from its rear tray.

Thanks a lot to comment for helping me with this one and everyone else who contributed!!

[Jaesonborn]

Thanks to everybody who contributed in this thread, really helped me a lot