How to print all files from a directory with lpr?

I feel dumb asking this, because there's probably a really really
simple solution. However, this has been driving me nuts all morning.

How do I print all the files of type *.pdf from a directory using lpr?

I tried "lpr *.pdf", but that just prints the first file.

I tried a little bash script of

for a in *.pdf
do
lpr "$a"
done


I tried that with and without the quotes, and that doesn't work
either. I give up and yield to the deeper knowledge of the group.
Ideas?

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