Can clicking in a dialog be written into an action?

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I have a printer (Mitsubishi 9500DW) that will only print through Photoshop by using the export command. This is fine, but I am trying to write an action to automate the printing of a few thousand photos. The problem is this, when the action goes to EXPORT, a dialog box pops up that requires me to hit PRINT before the action will continue. Obviously, I can't do that for a few thousand photos. So, I am stuck with finding a way to have Photoshop do this automatically. Any ideas? Suggestions? I would appreciate any ideas about working around this problem. I really don't want to have to pay someone to sit and hit the "enter" key all night while the images print..... Thanks in advance for the help and ideas.
#1
So you've recorded the action which included clicking Print and continuing, and now it won't work past this point when you run it. Is that what's happening?

I haven't come across this in any of my actions (and I have quite a few) There's a setting when you program actions into a plugin that's mentioned in the Software Developers Kit where you can click OK or Print or whatever, maybe an apple script could do it?
#2
Stevie,

The print dialog comes up as part of the export (using the plug-in). I don't know anything about scripts, but if it will make it work, I can be a VERY quick learner. Any other thoughts?

Thanks!
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