diff --git a/tei2imxml.py b/tei2imxml.py
index 390ad88..6d17d76 100644
--- a/tei2imxml.py
+++ b/tei2imxml.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ def make_publication_cfg(info_dict):
     number_of_editors = len(info_dict['eoa_editors'])
 
     if number_of_authors > 0 and number_of_editors > 0:
-        print("Found both editor and authors. This is not permitted. Exiting", number_of_authors, number_of_editors)
+        print("Found both editor and authors. This is not permitted. Exiting")
         sys.exit()
     elif number_of_authors == 0 and number_of_editors == 0:
         print("Found neither editor nor authors. Please fill in. Exiting")
@@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ def make_publication_cfg(info_dict):
     elif number_of_authors in range(1,6) and number_of_editors == 0:
         EDITED_VOLUME = False
     else:
-        print("num authors: ", number_of_authors)
-        print("num editors: ", number_of_editors)
         print("Something went wrong with the number of authors end editors. Please check. Exiting")
         sys.exit()
 
@@ -286,8 +284,6 @@ def format_reference_list(used_citekeys, html_file):
 def format_citations(used_citekeys, bibdata, html_file):
     """Return a formatted entry of the used citations"""
 
-    # print(used_citekeys)
-
     with open(TMP_DIR + os.path.sep + html_file, "r") as ding:
         cites = BeautifulSoup(ding, "html.parser")
 
@@ -374,7 +370,6 @@ def transform_body(xml_tree, cited_data, publang):
             logging.info("Found chapter author shortcuts: {}.".format(list_author_id))
             if len(list_author_id) > 0:
                 author_string = format_authors(list_author_id, publang, xml_tree)
-                # print(author_string)
                 eoa_author = etree.Element("EOAauthor")
                 eoa_author.text = author_string
                 chapter_title.insert(0, eoa_author)
@@ -973,10 +968,6 @@ def main():
             # create a dictionary entry containing the formatted references
             formatted_references_dict[tmp_dict_key] = refs_for_bib_chapter
 
-    # refs for bib_chapter contains formatted reference entries
-    # render_reference(all_references, cited_dict)
-    # print(cited_dict)
-
     tei_body = xml_tree.xpath("//t:body", namespaces=NS_MAP)[0]
     body_transformed_tmp = transform_body(tei_body, cited_dict, publang=publication_language)
     libeoaconvert.debug_xml_here(body_transformed_tmp, "body_transformed")