Active Print jobs during a cluster failover?

q1)We have a Windows 2003 printer cluster (Active/Passive), my question is what happens to a active print jobs when I initiate  a manual failover, does the currently printing jobs(on multiple printers) get completed in current node and rest of the print
jobs will be failedover?
q2) Also we are facing issues like, failover from node A to Node B works good, but failover from Node B to Node A takes a lot of time. Mostly pending on the printspooler service.
 

Printjobs actively printing will complete before a manual failover will continue, The spooler will not schedule new jobs. Printjobs stored to the shared disk will be scheduled after the failover event.
Clean up any unused resources on both nodes.  Particularly unused ports.  Take caution when removing print drivers.  I assume you have 64bit drivers on a 32bit system or 32bit on 64bit.  Cross platform are not loaded by the spooler process
so they can accidently be removed if you select all.
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