diff --git a/spacy/cli/convert.py b/spacy/cli/convert.py
index 67f97f632..2d8661339 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/convert.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/convert.py
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ def convert(
     is written to stdout, so you can pipe them forward to a JSON file:
     $ spacy convert some_file.conllu > some_file.json
     """
-    msg = Printer()
+    no_print = (output_dir == "-")
+    msg = Printer(no_print=no_print)
     input_path = Path(input_file)
     if file_type not in FILE_TYPES:
         msg.fail(
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ def convert(
         use_morphology=morphology,
         lang=lang,
         model=model,
+        no_print=no_print,
     )
     if output_dir != "-":
         # Export data to a file
diff --git a/spacy/cli/converters/conll_ner2json.py b/spacy/cli/converters/conll_ner2json.py
index a3a37d6c9..3d0e4d308 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/converters/conll_ner2json.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/converters/conll_ner2json.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from ...tokens.doc import Doc
 from ...util import load_model
 
 
-def conll_ner2json(input_data, n_sents=10, seg_sents=False, model=None, **kwargs):
+def conll_ner2json(input_data, n_sents=10, seg_sents=False, model=None, no_print=False, **kwargs):
     """
     Convert files in the CoNLL-2003 NER format and similar
     whitespace-separated columns into JSON format for use with train cli.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def conll_ner2json(input_data, n_sents=10, seg_sents=False, model=None, **kwargs
     . O
 
     """
-    msg = Printer()
+    msg = Printer(no_print=no_print)
     doc_delimiter = "-DOCSTART- -X- O O"
     # check for existing delimiters, which should be preserved
     if "\n\n" in input_data and seg_sents:
diff --git a/spacy/cli/converters/iob2json.py b/spacy/cli/converters/iob2json.py
index 740f29001..61c398f8d 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/converters/iob2json.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/converters/iob2json.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from ...util import minibatch
 from .conll_ner2json import n_sents_info
 
 
-def iob2json(input_data, n_sents=10, *args, **kwargs):
+def iob2json(input_data, n_sents=10, no_print=False, *args, **kwargs):
     """
     Convert IOB files with one sentence per line and tags separated with '|'
     into JSON format for use with train cli. IOB and IOB2 are accepted.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def iob2json(input_data, n_sents=10, *args, **kwargs):
     I|PRP|O like|VBP|O London|NNP|I-GPE and|CC|O New|NNP|B-GPE York|NNP|I-GPE City|NNP|I-GPE .|.|O
     I|PRP|O like|VBP|O London|NNP|B-GPE and|CC|O New|NNP|B-GPE York|NNP|I-GPE City|NNP|I-GPE .|.|O
     """
-    msg = Printer()
+    msg = Printer(no_print=no_print)
     docs = read_iob(input_data.split("\n"))
     if n_sents > 0:
         n_sents_info(msg, n_sents)