Comment 5 for bug 534985

I have a local printer connected directly by USB (Epson sylus CX6600) and the process still takes about ten seconds or more, so it can't be a problem only with network-connected device.

 A timeout option somewhere would be nice as most of the time i am quite happy for it to just print with my default settings and not tell me any information anyway.

Additionally, attempting to close the gnome-print dialogue should abort the "fetching printer information" task rather than causing the program from which one was attempting to print to hang while you wait.