PROBLEM: HP p2015 printing strange Characters

In our office we have an HP 2015 that has started printing abnormal characters on the end pages of say, a 6 page document. The first three pages will be ok, and then the remaining three pages will have symbols and strange characters in replace of the normal alphabet characters.
I've noticed it doing this from ADOBE PDF documents that are larger than 3-4 pages. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? I have re-installed the latest drivers, and the printer appears to have the latest updates.

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