Photoshop wants to install printer drivers

Hello this issue has been bugging me for a few days now and i can't seem to find help on it anywhere.
The firm I work for is an international design firm so we send .psd files back and forth from all of our offices.
Recently i've encountered an issue that seems to be related with saving a .psd file.
When one of our other offices saves the .psd file it apparently saves the printer information with it.
Now when our office here in the US wants to print this file, it prompts to install the printer that is located in our other office.
Is there a way to stop this from occuring? If we choose to not install the printer driver it takes what seems like eternity for the print dialog to appear.
If we do install the printer driver then when the computer starts up it tries to connect back to our other offices across the world, which takes forever.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Seems like a VERY good candidate for a preference setting in a future version of Photoshop to me.
People with a simple / consistent work environment (e.g., single location, same printers always available) would want it set the way it is now, so that the print information they used last time for a given document will be there again.
People with a diverse / changing work environment (e.g., multiple locations, multiple printers) might prefer to see the last printer settings they used locally to be the default for the next print, even if it's a different document.
May I recommend submitting a feature request: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
-Noel

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