diff --git a/src/cc/mallet/topics/HierarchicalLDA.java b/src/cc/mallet/topics/HierarchicalLDA.java
index 6fe0d71f9..373815c89 100644
--- a/src/cc/mallet/topics/HierarchicalLDA.java
+++ b/src/cc/mallet/topics/HierarchicalLDA.java
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ public void printState(PrintWriter out) throws IOException {
 
 			doc++;
 		}
+		out.close();
 	}	    
 
     public void printNodes() {
diff --git a/src/cc/mallet/topics/tui/HierarchicalLDATUI.java b/src/cc/mallet/topics/tui/HierarchicalLDATUI.java
index f5f187384..2e37cc630 100644
--- a/src/cc/mallet/topics/tui/HierarchicalLDATUI.java
+++ b/src/cc/mallet/topics/tui/HierarchicalLDATUI.java
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public static void main (String[] args) throws java.io.IOException {
 		// Output results
 
 		if (stateFile.value() != null) {
-			hlda.printState(new PrintWriter(stateFile.value()));
+			hlda.printState(new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(stateFile.value()))));
 		}
 
 		if (testing != null) {