diff --git a/crates/print/README.md b/crates/print/README.md
index 547af90f..49a11a2b 100644
--- a/crates/print/README.md
+++ b/crates/print/README.md
@@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ opens Windows printer preferences and submits jobs with copies, collation, duple
 - **Windows:** in this process, with no PowerShell, script or other program started, so
   printing works where App Control for Business or AppLocker enforce script rules. Printers
   come from `EnumPrinters` (local queues and `\\server\queue` connections) and the default from
-  `GetDefaultPrinter`. A job is drawn as vectors by the in-box `Windows.Data.Pdf` with Direct2D
+  `GetDefaultPrinter`. `printers` also reads each driver's PrintCapabilities to report two-sided
+  support, which can wait on the device (a networked printer in power save); `printer_queues`
+  lists the same queues without asking any driver, so a Print dialog's list never waits on a
+  device. A job is drawn as vectors by the in-box `Windows.Data.Pdf` with Direct2D
   into the XPS print API (the `winprint` crate), and copies, collation, duplex, colour, paper,
   orientation and "no scaling" travel in a PrintTicket that the driver validates first; a
   driver that would change the paper, orientation or scaling is refused before anything is
diff --git a/crates/print/src/lib.rs b/crates/print/src/lib.rs
index accf8392..b117cb20 100644
--- a/crates/print/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/print/src/lib.rs
@@ -422,6 +422,22 @@ pub fn printers() -> Vec<Printer> {
     }
 }
 
+/// The printers the system knows, without asking their drivers anything: [`printers`] with
+/// `two_sided` unknown. On Windows [`printers`] reads each driver's PrintCapabilities, which can
+/// wait on the device (a networked printer in power save), so a Print dialog that only needs
+/// names lists them from this without that wait. Submission still checks the job's options with
+/// the driver. Elsewhere it is [`printers`], whose `two_sided` is already unknown.
+pub fn printer_queues() -> Vec<Printer> {
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    {
+        windows::printer_queues()
+    }
+    #[cfg(not(windows))]
+    {
+        printers()
+    }
+}
+
 /// The Print dialog's printers from lpstat's two answers: the spooler's queues (`-p -d`), then
 /// the driverless destinations of `available` (`-e`) that have no queue — CUPS builds a temporary
 /// queue when `lp` sends them a job. Each destination once, queues first; the default still comes
diff --git a/crates/print/src/tests/windows_native.rs b/crates/print/src/tests/windows_native.rs
index f25f0cfb..04dcff75 100644
--- a/crates/print/src/tests/windows_native.rs
+++ b/crates/print/src/tests/windows_native.rs
@@ -410,6 +410,8 @@ fn windows_jobs_reach_the_spooler() {
         return;
     }
     let listed = spool::printers().into_iter().find(|p| p.name == name);
+    // The list a Print dialog shows first: the same queue, named without asking its driver.
+    let queue = spool::printer_queues().into_iter().find(|p| p.name == name);
     let mixed = test_pdf(&[LETTER, LETTER_LANDSCAPE, LETTER], true);
     let job = Job { printer: Some(name.into()), title: "mixed.pdf".into(), ..Job::default() };
     let caller = std::thread::current().id();
@@ -450,6 +452,7 @@ fn windows_jobs_reach_the_spooler() {
         name,
     );
     assert!(listed.as_ref().is_some_and(|p| p.two_sided.is_some()), "the new printer is listed, its duplex support known: {listed:?}");
+    assert!(queue.as_ref().is_some_and(|p| p.two_sided.is_none()), "the new printer is listed with no driver query: {queue:?}");
     assert_eq!(sent.as_deref(), Ok("spooled 3 sheet(s)"), "{sent:?}");
     if let Some(refused) = duplex_refused {
         assert!(matches!(refused, Err(Error::Spool(ref m)) if m.contains("simplex/duplex") && m.contains("nothing was sent")), "{refused:?}");
diff --git a/crates/print/src/windows.rs b/crates/print/src/windows.rs
index 0c8bbb43..20fb7176 100644
--- a/crates/print/src/windows.rs
+++ b/crates/print/src/windows.rs
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ fn print_ticket_provider() -> MutexGuard<'static, ()> {
 }
 
 pub(crate) fn printers() -> Vec<Printer> {
+    spooler_list(two_sided)
+}
+
+/// The queues and the default without asking any driver: a networked printer asleep in power
+/// save can hold its driver's PrintCapabilities query for a long time, and the Print dialog
+/// must not wait on it to show the queue (or any other).
+pub(crate) fn printer_queues() -> Vec<Printer> {
+    spooler_list(|_| None)
+}
+
+fn spooler_list(two_sided: impl Fn(&PrinterDevice) -> Option<bool>) -> Vec<Printer> {
     match PrinterDevice::all() {
         Ok(devices) => crate::printer_list(devices.iter().map(|d| (d.name().to_string(), two_sided(d))), default_printer().as_deref()),
         Err(_) => Vec::new(),