Printer prints too slowly

My (relatively) new HP CP2025dn prints very slowly, less than 4 pages per minute. So far as I can tell, the driver is resending each page over the network, and the printer is regenerating the image each time.
This happens even when I want to print multiple copies of the same page, uncollated. It happens from two differebt Windows 7 (64-bit) PCs and from an OpenSuse Linux version 11.4.
The Windows driver itself cannot count. If I want to print 10 copies of each of several pages, I will get varying numbers of copies if the different pages. Sometimes the Windows driver shows that there was an error transmitting one or several of the copies.
It was not always like this. When we first purchased it early in 2012, it could do 30 pages per minute for as long as the paper lasted.
Is there some kind of setting that makes this difference? Is there a difference between PCL and Postscript? If so, how can I control it?
Thanks,
OSProf

What printer are you using?
What OS are you using?
How is the printer connected to the computer?
What program are you trying to print from?
Does it do the same thing from other programs?
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