Iphone 4 won't send imessage to certain contact randomly

Randomly my iphone well seem to decided to only send text messages to a certain contact when I am out of cell service. When i go to messages it says 'text message' and the send button it green only for that contact and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell it to send a immessage and it isn't that the contact is not a iphone cause most of the time it has no issue sending imessage.

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Randomly my iphone well seem to decided to only send text messages to a certain contact when I am out of cell service. When i go to messages it says 'text message' and the send button it green only for that contact and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell it to send a immessage and it isn't that the contact is not a iphone cause most of the time it has no issue sending imessage.
Theres your answer. about message http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529

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