Appleworks Spreadsheets not printing

I have a new imac -20" using OS 10.4.5 with appleworks 6.2.9 which prints word processing and drawings very well onto a new magicolor 2450 colour laser printer, with the most upto date printer driver. (also to my old Epson color 880) but will not print out spreadsheets to either printer.
I think I have followed peggy's 'Appleworks has stopped working correctly', and deleted the plist etc. (There were lots of plist icons). Apple Genius bar expert told me to upgrade to 10.4.5... done. I have repaired permissions.
When clicking 'print' in the printer window the horizontal blue bar appears for half a second but then vanishes and nothing happens, unlike for word processed letters when the printer pops up in the dock and the printer reacts with some output.
Apple telephone support said it was not their problem.
Thanks in anticipation.
imac 20" G5 superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.1GHz with 250GB HD & 1.5GB ram

Welcome to Apple Discussions
You deleted the AppleWorks plist, but did you delete the other AppleWorks preferences as in my user tip, AppleWorks has stopped working correctly? It's important to delete all of them at the same time.
I think, though, that the problem is with just that spreadsheet since WP & DR documents print. There are several things to try to fix it.
1. Go to Options > Set Print Range & click All cells with data. Personally, I like to use the Set Print All button in the Button Bar.
2. Save the spreadsheet as an AppleWorks 5 document with a slightly different name & then open the AppleWorks 5 SS in AppleWorks 6. You do not need to have AppleWorks 5 or Classic to do this. This will retain any formatting & column widths you may have adjusted.
3. Copy all of the data in this spreadsheet & paste into a new, blank spreadsheet.
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