Printer wise, we got a cheap £30 quid printer from HP and took out a cheap HP instant ink subscription. It works out very well if you are using an established syllabus, as you get a month of more or less unlimited printing at sign up, so print as much as you can at the start, and then drop down to the 2 quid a month subscription. (Or whatever you expect your print level to be) If you set up a chain with other parents, you can refer each other to get more months of high volume paid for printing.
It works very well if you need to print lots of full colour stuff. We've gone through 4 large volume colour ink cartridges and 1 black cartridge in a year for under the cost of 1 shop bought cartridge.
It's a Deskjet 3700 series, so it's all on WiFi so we can print from our phones etc, doesn't need to be plugged into a computer.
