Print Preview originally had an optimization that avoided re-rendering the preview for cases where the settings haven't changed much. e.g. When the only difference between two preview requests is the page range going from all pages to page 2, Print Preview can reuse the output of the previous preview request.
Over time, this optimization bit rotted and nobody noticed until recently. Trying to revive it hit snags like bug 731600 and bug 740830 , so the feature is being disable for now.
We should either try to revive it again, or decide it it not worth it and delete it altogether.
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, Jul 20 2017