Officejet Pro 8500A (A910) - garbled printing

Hi,
This problem has been going on now on and off for approximately 12 months.  I've a small office with a 4 computers connected to the printer wirelessly.  When printing large files, the printer can't seem to handle it and instead prints out numerous pages containing black lettering ranging from 1 or 2 lines up to half a page.  If I'm printing a double sided file that contains both text and images, it can print upto 15 pages on nonsense.  The firmware's up to date and it's not practical to connect via cable.
I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem, but I've not been able to find a solution searching for it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I'm seem to be wasting at least a third of a ream of paper and copious amounts of ink just printing day to day.
Thanks
Mike

Symptoms suggest that the print job is being corrupted (perhaps by some sort of wireless drop-out?).
If the raw data in a print job becomes corrupted, the printer can easily 'lose its way', and be unable to correctly interpret the next 'tranch' of instructions.

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