Fault tolerance for network printing

What options are available to provide fault tolerance for network printing? Currently, all our shared printers are on ServerA. Is it possible to have similar shared printers on ServerB and have the clients automatically switch to Server B if
Server A became unavailable? We don't care about load balancing as much as fault tolerance. Thanks to all who post!

A failover cluster node ? (not in nlb;
Servers in a Network Load Balancing (NLB) failover cluster cannot be used as print servers in Windows Server 2008 )
For environments that require high availability, you can use a failover cluster as a print server. If a node in the cluster fails, all print functionality will fail over to the next node in the cluster. To improve failover times, we recommend
that the administrator for the cluster force failover to each node when new print drivers are installed on the server. During a failover, the driver installation is forced to occur on the active node. The installation of the driver on each node
can require several minutes. Forcing this installation process during maintenance will make sure that any unplanned failovers during usual operation will be very quick, because the drivers will already be installed on each node.
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