diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
index 6de511c0..5d83a134 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.zip.Inflater;
 import java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream;
 
 import static com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.util.IIOUtil.createStreamAdapter;
@@ -2429,7 +2428,7 @@ public final class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
             case TIFFExtension.COMPRESSION_DEFLATE:
                 // TIFF specification, supplement 2 says ZLIB (8) and DEFLATE (32946) algorithms are identical
             case TIFFCustom.COMPRESSION_PIXTIFF_ZIP:
-                return new InflaterInputStream(stream, new Inflater(), 1024);
+                return new InflaterInputStream(stream);
             case TIFFBaseline.COMPRESSION_CCITT_MODIFIED_HUFFMAN_RLE:
             case TIFFExtension.COMPRESSION_CCITT_T4:
             case TIFFExtension.COMPRESSION_CCITT_T6: