print job or prior to the printer going into standby mode the carousel 150 is retracted away from the printhead ics 30 in rotated so that the printhead capping maintenance station 198 is again presented to the printhead as shown in fig1 the lift shaft 160 rotates the lift cam so that the lift arms 158 move the printhead capping maintenance station 198 into sealing engagement with the underside of the lcp molding 20 fig1 19 20 and 21 show the maintenance carousel in isolation fig1 is a perspective view showing the wiper blades 162 and print platen 206 fig1 is a perspective view showing the printhead capper 198 and the wiper blades 162 fig2 is an exploded perspective showing the component parts of the maintenance carousel and fig2 is a section view showing the component parts fully assembled the maintenance carousel has four printhead maintenance stations a print platen 206 a wiper member 162 a printhead capper 198 and a spittoon blotter 220 each of the maintenance stations is mounted to its own outer chassis component the outer chassis components fit around the carousel tubular shaft 166 and interengage each other to lock on to the shaft at one end of the tubular shaft 166 is a carousel encoder disk 204 and a carousel spur gear 212 which is driven by the carousel rotation motor not shown described below the tubular shaft is fixed to the spur gear or rotation therewith the printhead maintenance stations rotate together with the tubular shaft by virtue of.