Best Ink Jet Printer

What would be the best ink jet printer to hook to a airport extreme router with both Mac's and Pc's hooked to it.
No need for high end printing mostly black & white word documents and a few colour pages for school projects.

The best one "for what?".
According to your post, if you're looking to print mostly B&W and some color, basically, any modern printer will do.
One point that you've to check carefully is the cost of the replacement ink cartridges.
The very cheap printers (+/- US$ 60.00) usually use one cartridge for the 3 colors (Red,Green and Blue) and one for the Black, and replacement of these cartridges cost almost the price of a new printer.
The ones over US$ 100.00 have separate cartridges for each color, so, when you run out of one color you'll have to replace ONLY that color, which can amount for a lot of savings.
If you also would like to print labels directly to the surface of the blank CD's and DVD's, then I would recommend an Epson (there're various models that'll do this).
Regards
Pedro

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