diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
index d2105a4189..23d073cfa4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
@@ -525,7 +525,6 @@ class HTMLPreProcessor(object):
             html = self.smarten_punctuation(html)
 
         unsupported_unicode_chars = self.extra_opts.output_profile.unsupported_unicode_chars
-        print str(unsupported_unicode_chars)
         for [char, replacement] in unsupported_unicode_chars:
             html = re.sub('%s' % char, replacement, html)