generating PostScript level 1. So its support is only experimental
and distributions should not choose it as default.
+Poppler does not explicitly support turning colored PDF files into
+grayscale PostScript, that's why grayscale/monochrome printing
+could result in color output.
+Use alternative backends, such as Ghostscript or MuPDF, if this is
+the case with your printer.
+
The selection is done by the "pdftops-renderer" option, setting it
to "gs", "pdftops", "pdftocairo", "acroread", "mupdf", or "hybrid":