diff --git a/data-access/engine/src/vlkb/src/imcopydav.cpp b/data-access/engine/src/vlkb/src/imcopydav.cpp
index 1979dbb0bacce28a4c843506fd2f86cec8c81941..76e8a67fda2fcaca249fd581bfbd3dcb009dfeb2 100644
--- a/data-access/engine/src/vlkb/src/imcopydav.cpp
+++ b/data-access/engine/src/vlkb/src/imcopydav.cpp
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ class dav
       long n_blocks_with_padding = (n_cardslots==0) ? n_blocks : (n_blocks+1);
 
       this->du_firstbyte_cix = (2880)*n_blocks_with_padding;
-
-      cout << "du_firstbyte_cix: " << this->du_firstbyte_cix << endl;
    }
 
 
@@ -81,10 +79,6 @@ class dav
          int naxis = maxdim;
          // prepare volume[] for coord -> offset calcs
          for(int i=1; i<naxis; i++) this->volume[i] = this->volume[i-1] * naxes[i-1];
-         cout << "volume:  [ ";
-         for(int i=0; i<naxis; i++) cout << this->volume[i] << " ";
-         cout << "]" << endl;
-
          return *status;
       }
 
@@ -159,12 +153,9 @@ class dav
          {
             pixels_off += (fpixel[i]-1) * volume[i];
          }
-         //cout << "pixels_off: " << pixels_off << endl;
 
          dav_off_t doff = du_firstbyte_cix + (abs(bitpix)/8) * pixels_off;
 
-         //cout << "file offset: " << doff << endl;
-
          this->file.readPartial(NULL, array, arraylen, doff, &err);
 
          return *status;
@@ -625,8 +616,8 @@ void imcopydav(std::string url, int extnum, std::string pixfilter)
    dav fdav(url);     /* I - input image */
    fitsfile *newfptr; /* I - pointer to output image */
 
-   fits_create_file(&newfptr, "cut.fits", &status);
-   //fits_create_file(&newfptr, "stream://", &status);
+   //fits_create_file(&newfptr, "cut.fits", &status);
+   fits_create_file(&newfptr, "stream://", &status);
    if (status)
    {
       string errmsg{ fitsfiles::cfitsio_errmsg(__FILE__, __LINE__, status) };