diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
index 7d1ade13..454eeffa 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
@@ -2534,7 +2534,6 @@ QPDFWriter::writePCLmHeader()
     this->final_extension_level = this->min_extension_level;
     if (! this->forced_pdf_version.empty())
     {
-	QTC::TC("qpdf", "QPDFWriter using forced PDF version");
 	this->final_pdf_version = this->forced_pdf_version;
         this->final_extension_level = this->forced_extension_level;
     }
@@ -3325,8 +3324,6 @@ QPDFWriter::writePCLm()
 
     if (this->deterministic_id)
     {
-        QTC::TC("qpdf", "QPDFWriter standard deterministic ID",
-                    this->object_stream_to_objects.empty() ? 0 : 1);
         popPipelineStack();
         assert(this->md5_pipeline == 0);
     }