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Does low toner ever cause a printer to warm up slowly/print slow?

I have a user who is complaining his hp laser printer takes 30 seconds to warm up when he goes to print anything, no matter if he has just printed something or not, as well as each page taking about 25 seconds to print. He says it's never been this slow. I checked the IP, and it says the toner is low, but that's it. Any printer techs know what would cause a laser printer to keep warming up/print slowly? Thanks! By the way, he is not printing high DPI, our print settings here are very, very basic and the users can't modify them. The printer just started doing this...he's had it a year. You think power supply maybe? It's an LJ 4200. I know the "morning" warm up takes 30 seconds to a minute, but usually when you print after that, it goes pretty quick.

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1. If there is a problem with the power supply this will happen but printing one page is alway slow on a laser printer Low toner will only effect the print Taking 30 seconds to warm up is not very long as some colour lasers take 3 or 4 minutes This sort of problem really needs a printer engineer