Print Speed slowed majorly

[Matthew_Johns]

I have been using my printer for the past month or so to print "large" print jobs (average 75 pages per job) and completing roughly 20-30 jobs throughout the day. This printer used to "spit" papers out and could print 75 pages rather quickly. Several weeks ago, I printed one job and the papers "spit" out just fine. I then went to print another job 1-2 minutes after the previous job finished and the papers would just slowly be rolled out. It takes about 4-5 seconds for a page to be finished printing (starting from when I hear the page rolling through the machine and ending when the paper hits the bin). We have another printer of the same model being used elsewhere and this printer will print a page in roughly 2 seconds. Given that I had not changed any settings between the time of the printer working normally with one print job, followed by printing very slowly with the next print job, with only a couple of minutes between the jobs, I have no idea what happened. I have tried to troubleshoot by checking & updating the firmware (using most recent firmware listed on HP). Firmware is "HP FutureSmart 5, bundle version 5.8, revision 2508048_049273, date code 20240723". Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

[Repairatrooper]

Sounds like the fuser is having trouble maintaining proper temperature and so speed slows down to allow recovery time so that toner is bonded properly. If you have another of the same model that does not slow down swap the fusers to see if the problem follows the fuser or stays with the printer. Also depending on media these printers will reduce speed after x number of pages for the same reason.

[Matthew_Johns]

Thank you for your response. I swapped fusers and it didn't change the speed at all; Still printed slowly. The printer I am printing on is one of the lesser used throughout our building, so I would assume that other printers would have slowed prior to experiencing mine being slow. Anything else I should try or somewhere I should look?