Laserjet P1007 - Light/faint printouts

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I have an HP Laserjet P1007 printer.
I use Windows 7 Ultimate OS.
Driver version is v7.0.
Printer is out of warranty.
Economode is disabled in settings.

The printer was functioning fine about 2-3 months ago without any problem.

The problem is the printouts are very light/faint. They're not dark and crisp.
If I'm printing any text, they print okay but are not dark as they are supposed to be.
If I print any scanned image or any other pic, they're barely visible.

I have tried HP's Printing diagnostic utility.
It did not find any problem.

What could be the problem?
How can I solve it?

Image printing on this printer isn't a great experience actually.

Post some image/document which you printed. I'll print it on my printer and post a pic of the page.

What is the toner level?

Pics attached.

The second image was of low resolution for printing. (the forum's attachment system resized it perhaps)

*img145.imageshack.us/img145/7057/dsc01429o.th.jpg (somewhat bad lighting)

*img843.imageshack.us/img843/2423/dsc01430j.th.jpg

*img574.imageshack.us/img574/355/dsc01431u.th.jpg

Hmm, your printouts are good, the way they should be.
I'll have to try another toner.
If that doesn't work, my printer's malfunctioning.
Any ideas?

I used Ubuntu 10.10 though. Too lazy to set up the printer in Windows 7 on my laptop.

Check out the toner level. Go to the printer options/properties and you get the option over there. A page is printed which shows the toner level in percentage. Sorry for the vague instructions.

All right.
I tried it on another computer with Windows XP.
Printed faint/light copies.
So the problem is neither with driver or OS.
Will get the toner checked on another printer.

One good tip for toner Never buy the old toner as the shelf life of the toner is 6 months