diff --git a/pkg/printers/BUILD b/pkg/printers/BUILD
index 64df3d8c88a..e40d3a4fd8b 100644
--- a/pkg/printers/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/printers/BUILD
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ go_library(
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema:go_default_library",
-        "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/errors:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/client-go/util/jsonpath:go_default_library",
     ],
diff --git a/pkg/printers/internalversion/printers_test.go b/pkg/printers/internalversion/printers_test.go
index f338893cb3b..b8f001d8764 100644
--- a/pkg/printers/internalversion/printers_test.go
+++ b/pkg/printers/internalversion/printers_test.go
@@ -390,10 +390,25 @@ func TestNamePrinter(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 				Items: []runtime.RawExtension{
 					{
-						Raw: []byte(`{"kind": "Pod", "apiVersion": "v1", "metadata": { "name": "foo"}}`),
+						Object: &v1.Pod{
+							TypeMeta: metav1.TypeMeta{
+								Kind: "Pod",
+							},
+							ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+								Name: "foo",
+							},
+						},
 					},
 					{
-						Raw: []byte(`{"kind": "Pod", "apiVersion": "v1", "metadata": { "name": "bar"}}`),
+						Object: &unstructured.Unstructured{
+							Object: map[string]interface{}{
+								"kind":       "Pod",
+								"apiVersion": "v1",
+								"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
+									"name": "bar",
+								},
+							},
+						},
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -574,8 +589,7 @@ func TestPrinters(t *testing.T) {
 		"template2": templatePrinter2,
 		"jsonpath":  jsonpathPrinter,
 		"name": &printers.NamePrinter{
-			Typer:    legacyscheme.Scheme,
-			Decoders: []runtime.Decoder{legacyscheme.Codecs.UniversalDecoder(), unstructured.UnstructuredJSONScheme},
+			Typer: legacyscheme.Scheme,
 		},
 	}
 	objects := map[string]runtime.Object{
diff --git a/pkg/printers/name.go b/pkg/printers/name.go
index 30fb06e150f..ba6b6905e67 100644
--- a/pkg/printers/name.go
+++ b/pkg/printers/name.go
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
-	utilerrors "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/errors"
 )
 
 // NamePrinter is an implementation of ResourcePrinter which outputs "resource/name" pair of an object.
@@ -39,8 +38,7 @@ type NamePrinter struct {
 	// finalized "successful" message.
 	Operation string
 
-	Decoders []runtime.Decoder
-	Typer    runtime.ObjectTyper
+	Typer runtime.ObjectTyper
 }
 
 // PrintObj is an implementation of ResourcePrinter.PrintObj which decodes the object
@@ -58,9 +56,6 @@ func (p *NamePrinter) PrintObj(obj runtime.Object, w io.Writer) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		if errs := runtime.DecodeList(items, p.Decoders...); len(errs) > 0 {
-			return utilerrors.NewAggregate(errs)
-		}
 		for _, obj := range items {
 			if err := p.PrintObj(obj, w); err != nil {
 				return err
diff --git a/pkg/printers/name_flags.go b/pkg/printers/name_flags.go
index 01501703ea3..dc9e4ac4047 100644
--- a/pkg/printers/name_flags.go
+++ b/pkg/printers/name_flags.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/scheme"
@@ -50,11 +49,9 @@ func (f *NamePrintFlags) Complete(successTemplate string) error {
 // Returns false if the specified outputFormat does not match a supported format.
 // Supported format types can be found in pkg/printers/printers.go
 func (f *NamePrintFlags) ToPrinter(outputFormat string) (ResourcePrinter, error) {
-	decoders := []runtime.Decoder{scheme.Codecs.UniversalDecoder(), unstructured.UnstructuredJSONScheme}
 	namePrinter := &NamePrinter{
 		Operation: f.Operation,
 		Typer:     scheme.Scheme,
-		Decoders:  decoders,
 	}
 
 	outputFormat = strings.ToLower(outputFormat)