HP5L prints 2 bad pages before a good one

I have an old HP5L black and white laserjet printer purchased in ~1997 (maybe I should not be cheap and upgrade!). It has developed an issue printing on the first couple sheets.
It is a HP Laserjet 5L Xtra, Model C3941A.
It will no longer print a self-diagnostic sheet. After holding the button, the middle light will light once, then the yellow light will light once, and then the bottom light illuminates again, and nothing happens. I pulled the printer cable and removed the memory card and tried again (after cycling the power) and no change.
If I send a file to the printer from any application (I'm in Windows 7), it sends out two pages that look similar to what is attached (there's almost a jagged looking attempt at the first line at the top of the sheet), and then will print the file perfect on the third sheet. And by that, it prints all three sheets (the two bad and then the good one) from one print command. It does not need to be resent. Just eats up paper.
If something else is sent in quick succession, it will also print out fine. It's almost like the printer has to warm up and then it's ok.
I happened to decide it was time to reformat and reload everything from setup files on my computer a couple weeks ago thinking maybe a side benefit would be this problem would go away as something might have gotten corrupt after many years and was sending junk tothe printer. Nope.
The printer is currently connected through a USB to parallel port adapting cable, but did the same thing when using the parallel port.
Any ideas on what to try? The printer still makes good prints after the first two sheets come out, but it is really annoying.
Thanks!
Chris

Hi George,
At this stage you have your table across 4 pages. You have not said if you are using portrait or landscape for printing but it doesn't matter.
When you click on a table it is selected and the ABC and 123 Column and row titles appear, when the table is not selected they disappear. As you seem to have only one table it's going to appear as selected all the time.
When the table is selected there are tags on the top right, bottom left and bottom right of the table which you can drag backward and forwards to make more or less rows and columns the tag bottom right does both rows and columns at once. You can also select by clicking on the ABC / 123 titles and use > Edit > Delete.
It sounds far more complicated than it is, remember the tables are graphics not an excel type grid.
The Inspector and tool bar have all the tools you require although some are repeated on the format bar.
Numbers is best used for multiple tables on multiple sheets not single monolithic grids.
The help option is great too.

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