How can Air Print be configured to print properly?

Neither of those things happens to me. Pages are reasonable well formatted pages, and pictures are pictures. The drivers in AirPrint not real advanced, but they are very consistent.

I am using an hp d110 ( I think). Are there different modes on your printer that you can select?

You also might look for and install a firware update on the printer if one is available. It sounds like your printer is not interpreting the AirPrint formats properly.

I guess because the iPad is smaller than page.

No. It prints regular pages on regular paper, independant from what you see on the screen.

What make and model printer do you have?

I had the same problem with an HP 5520 - not only can airprint only print to photo size (there is no option to choose the paper size) but it also crops photos, seeming randomly.

Airprint appears to be all but useless unless you're looking for badly cropped, photo sized prints.

I was able to solve the problem by downloading HP's dedicated printing ap but it's not ideal (can't print from photostreams and have to copy to camera roll for example). Also while the iPad version of the ap offers paper size the iphone version only offers photo size.

I'm going off Apple pretty rapidly, apart from some awful customer service my wife had from them recently the products just don't seem to be as flawless as they used to be. my iphone 5 is covered in chips for example and it's not like I let it get knocked about. Hope they pull their finger out and bring quality back to the fore soon.

I am having the same problem and was hesitant to download ANOTHER app, haha. Glad to know it fixed the issue! Thanks!