C6380 Printer Preperation After Every Print Job

After any small time gap between print jobs (i.e., not in between queued print jobs, but then after the last of those), my c6380 will go through a "Please wait. Printer preperation occurring." The print mechanism appears (noisy) to be doing something and then it goes idle.
Is my printer acting correctly?
Thanks,
Keith

This is normal. After the printer has been idle for some time it prepares the printheads to be parked away in the service area so they will not dry out.
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