diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/sysds/parser/DMLTranslator.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/sysds/parser/DMLTranslator.java
index b0673be092e..4eff055dbdc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/sysds/parser/DMLTranslator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/sysds/parser/DMLTranslator.java
@@ -1686,11 +1686,13 @@ private Hop processIndexingExpression(IndexedIdentifier source, DataIdentifier t
 		if (target == null) {
 			target = createTarget(source);
 		}
+		
 		//unknown nnz after range indexing (applies to indexing op but also
 		//data dependent operations)
 		target.setNnz(-1); 
 
-		Hop indexOp = new IndexingOp(target.getName(), target.getDataType(), target.getValueType(),
+		DataType dt = target.getDataType().isScalar() ? DataType.MATRIX : target.getDataType();
+		Hop indexOp = new IndexingOp(target.getName(), dt, target.getValueType(),
 			hops.get(source.getName()), ixRange[0], ixRange[1], ixRange[2], ixRange[3],
 			source.getRowLowerEqualsUpper(), source.getColLowerEqualsUpper());
 
diff --git a/src/test/scripts/functions/rewrite/RewriteNonScalarPrint.dml b/src/test/scripts/functions/rewrite/RewriteNonScalarPrint.dml
index cf4c3e79c2b..609cf4f1c7e 100644
--- a/src/test/scripts/functions/rewrite/RewriteNonScalarPrint.dml
+++ b/src/test/scripts/functions/rewrite/RewriteNonScalarPrint.dml
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ else if(type==3){   # standard list case
     print(A_list)
 }
 else if(type==4){   # slice row from matrix
-    A_row = A[1,]
-    print(A_row)    # print(A[1,]) produces incorrect output
+    print(A[1,])
 }
 else if(type==5){   # slice column from matrix
     A_col = A[,1]