diff --git a/PyNutil/io/atlas_loader.py b/PyNutil/io/atlas_loader.py
index 192525505d1b719155288729a03d4ceb43431594..19ce6fcdc2dc0f62194b323470b6d23a6ee386e2 100644
--- a/PyNutil/io/atlas_loader.py
+++ b/PyNutil/io/atlas_loader.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ def load_atlas_data(atlas_name):
 
 
 def process_atlas_volume(vol):
-    print("reorienting brainglobe atlas into quicknii space...")
     return np.transpose(vol, [2, 0, 1])[::-1, ::-1, ::-1]