diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py b/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
index e0c57251a..80dc704e4 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ class XmlItemExporter(BaseItemExporter):
 
     def _export_xml_field(self, name, serialized_value):
         self.xg.startElement(name, {})
-        print '%r %r' % (name, serialized_value), self.encoding
         self.xg.characters(serialized_value)
         self.xg.endElement(name)