Printing slowed down recently

Gang,
I have a 1.6GHz G5 PowerPC running OS 10.4.8. I print through the Ethernet network to a HP 2300dtn. It has worked flawlessly for a couple or more years now that we've had it.
Sometime in the last week or two the printing process has slowed to a crawl. It takes upwards of a minute or two for the first page to print, then sometimes equal amounts of time for subsequent pages to print from the same job. These same documents used to start printing almost immediately and would print out at the rated speed of the printer (something like 4 or 6 pages per minute).
I have looked at the printer's status box (the thing that comes up when you click the printer's icon in the user\library\printers folder) and it spends a lot of time toggling between Preparing Data and Sending Data. It takes a bit on Opening Connection, too (if I'm remembering the terms correctly).
I've downloaded and reinstalled the HP driver to no avail.
Any other thoughts? I know there were a couple software updates recently, but I don't recall what they were (iTunes, maybe a Quicktime update, others?).
TIA,
_dennis

I posted prematurely. Since then I tried printing to another 2300 and a 2200 on the network, and they printed quickly like they should.
The problem appears to be isolated to this printer and not my computer. Strange thing is that other users on the network (all Windows users) do not appear to be having a similar problem printing to that printer.
_dennis

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