I was able to print wirelessly from my 4S phone but now I can't. Where on my phone can I check its printing cababilities?

Question

I can print sometimes from the HP 1100 printer but then I can't. The printer is printing the macbook documents wirelessly so it must be my phone. I can't find any information on my phone about its connectivity to printers.

Answer 1

Can be a bit convoluted as the phone doesn't actually have any drivers in the tradtional sense.
What it does is locates WiFi printers on the same network and connects over an adhoc connection.
The pint job is sent as an e-mail over the Wifi connection and the printer converts that e-mail PDF and sends that as a local print.
The point of break down is usually the Wifi connection and it may be necessary to reboot the printer to gain a stable link.
Also make sure your phone is actually connected to the Wifi network and not just the mobile network !
There are other print solutions you might want to try however these need a Mac/PC host machine.
On the Mac Pintopia adds the ability to print via the host to just about any USB connected printer and is imo more stable than airprint.the host must be running for this to work.
You can also try an app called We Print server that works on PC and Mac hosts and allows printing via the 3G network as well as local Wifi. Its very useful.
Finally you can make some adjustments and view the print job on the iOS device by starting a print then double clicking on the home button in the task bar you will see a new icon called Print Center where you can make minor adjustments and even cancel the job if you want,