diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/markdownml.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/markdownml.py
index 30e2d1d7be..878633add3 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/markdownml.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/markdownml.py
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ class MarkdownMLizer(OEB2HTML):
             l = re.sub('\t', '', l)
             new_text.append(start + l)
         text = '\n'.join(new_text)
-        print(text)
         
         # Remove spaces from blank lines.
         text = re.sub('(?msu)^[ ]+$', '', text)