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Your laser printer must fill its buffer first before it will start to print
I give you a 'B+' for effort and let youIf a print job used less ram, then the printer will start, because that’s the last command given in the spooler..

A networked printer can get congested at times and may dump a print job as unceremoniously as a traveler at a bus station. Like adding more commodes, more RAM should help, just like with a PostScript printer that may spit out one page and then stop despite it being a multipage print job.
There are workarounds for Postscript printers that may not require adding more RAM or changing to PCL6:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-message-80652657-d00f-11b8-c2e2-68af87a40205
Whether networked or not, the printer's time to first page out can be altered by you from the printer's settings. Here's an article aimed at networked printers though it also applies to a non-networked single user only printer.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/workarounds-for-slow-network-printing/
However, none of this applies to OP question. (Ha! Beat you to it, @Artur5
