Remove Print Area Link?

I have a workbook with macro code which creates another workbook and then copies the formatting from the active sheet to the new workbook (single sheet). Once the formatting has been copied, the new workbook has a print area reference to a separate worksheet in the original workbook.

I have tried clearing the print area using the button on the Page Layout ribbon, but it has no effect. If I check links I find a link to the original workbook.

The only way I have found to break this link is to add a new print area on the new workbook. This does not remove the earlier print area reference, but it does break the link.

I find this all rather bizzare. No doubt there is a perfectly rational explanation. What I would like is some code that will remove this reference to the unrelated worksheet in the original workbook.