Yes, I have to revoke this bug. It turned out my printer was
misconfigured (somehow the printer was automatically recognized and
installed, but the driver was missing). Apologies for a false alarm.
** Changed in: inkscape
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: inkscape (Ubuntu)
Statu
Printing as a bitmap means that Inkscape will generate PostScript output
containing one big image instead of vector operators. PostScript is the
standard printer language used by all applications on Linux. CUPS (or
whatever your distro uses) will run ghostscript to convert the
PostScript generated
