diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 203eeb45..93e9363e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 ### Added
+- Added printProblem to print problem to stdout
 - Added stage checks to presolve, freereoptsolve, freetransform
 - Added primal_dual_evolution recipe and a plot recipe
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/pyscipopt/scip.pxi b/src/pyscipopt/scip.pxi
index d2063f5f..04dba32f 100644
--- a/src/pyscipopt/scip.pxi
+++ b/src/pyscipopt/scip.pxi
@@ -2889,6 +2889,32 @@ cdef class Model:
         if not onlyroot:
             self.setIntParam("propagating/maxrounds", 0)
 
+    def printProblem(self, ext='.cip', trans=False, genericnames=False):
+        """
+        Write current model/problem to standard output.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        ext   : str, optional
+            the extension to be used (Default value = '.cip').
+            Should have an extension corresponding to one of the readable file formats,
+            described in https://www.scipopt.org/doc/html/group__FILEREADERS.php.
+        trans : bool, optional
+            indicates whether the transformed problem is written to file (Default value = False)
+        genericnames : bool, optional
+            indicates whether the problem should be written with generic variable
+            and constraint names (Default value = False)
+        """
+        user_locale = locale.getlocale(category=locale.LC_NUMERIC)
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "C")
+
+        if trans:
+            PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteTransProblem(self._scip, NULL, str_conversion(ext)[1:], genericnames))
+        else:
+            PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteOrigProblem(self._scip, NULL, str_conversion(ext)[1:], genericnames))            
+
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC,user_locale)
+    
     def writeProblem(self, filename='model.cip', trans=False, genericnames=False, verbose=True):
         """
         Write current model/problem to a file.
@@ -2911,22 +2937,27 @@ cdef class Model:
         user_locale = locale.getlocale(category=locale.LC_NUMERIC)
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "C")
 
-        str_absfile = abspath(filename)
-        absfile = str_conversion(str_absfile)
-        fn, ext = splitext(absfile)
-
-        if len(ext) == 0:
-            ext = str_conversion('.cip')
-        fn = fn + ext
-        ext = ext[1:]
-
-        if trans:
-            PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteTransProblem(self._scip, fn, ext, genericnames))
+        if filename:
+            str_absfile = abspath(filename)
+            absfile = str_conversion(str_absfile)
+            fn, ext = splitext(absfile)
+            if len(ext) == 0:
+                ext = str_conversion('.cip')
+            fn = fn + ext
+            ext = ext[1:]
+            
+            if trans:
+                PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteTransProblem(self._scip, fn, ext, genericnames))
+            else:
+                PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteOrigProblem(self._scip, fn, ext, genericnames))
+            
+            if verbose:
+                print('wrote problem to file ' + str_absfile)
         else:
-            PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteOrigProblem(self._scip, fn, ext, genericnames))
-        
-        if verbose:
-            print('wrote problem to file ' + str_absfile)
+            if trans:
+                PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteTransProblem(self._scip, NULL, str_conversion('.cip')[1:], genericnames))
+            else:
+                PY_SCIP_CALL(SCIPwriteOrigProblem(self._scip, NULL, str_conversion('.cip')[1:], genericnames))            
 
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC,user_locale)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_model.py b/tests/test_model.py
index f5dcd062..2d07331e 100644
--- a/tests/test_model.py
+++ b/tests/test_model.py
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ def test_model():
 
     s.writeProblem('model')
     s.writeProblem('model.lp')
+    s.printProblem()
 
     s.freeProb()
     s = Model()