How to speed up "Getting printer information"?

Whenever I want to print a PDF document in evince, I'm always slowed down with the "Getting printer information" process. I was wondering if there was anyway to save the "printer information" locally somehow so I'm not slowed down by the network lookup.

Disable Listening on /var/run/cups/cups.sock in cupsd.conf, keeping only "Listen localhost:631". See comment #29 in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/475845

sudo perl -i.bak -pe 's/^(Listen .*cups\.sock)/#$1/' /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

If your application doesn't show any printers any more, restart it.

Set a static ip for the printer and put the printer in the hosts file.You could try fiddling with http://localhost:631