If you are going to provide a dish in the cage for bathes, you must plan on this when deciding on the cage size also. You will also want to hang a couple toys. Keep a few extra toys on hand so you can rotate them with the ones in the cage to keep your bird stimulated and not bored with the same old toys. Before you buy a cage, visualize it not as the empty wire block in the store but with all its equipment set up. It is often on hand anyway, is fairly easy to change daily, and allows you to easily check the bird's stools and note changes that might indicate illness.
Some people use white paper towels or purchase newspaper end rolls to eliminate the ink problem.
Paper is probably the bedding of choice for humid areas where bird owners need to be extra careful of bacteria contamination. Paper is the medium least likely to support bacterial growth. Pine shavings as bedding are absorbent, easy to dispose of by composting, can be scooped out like cat litter to prolong the period between complete changes, and have a pleasant, neutral odor. One problem with this type of bedding though is that it may grow bacteria and fungus and if all of the bedding is not changed daily it can cause your bird to end up with problems such as Aspergillosis which can kill your bird. Another problem with using shavings for bedding is the possibility of your bird ingesting some of the bedding which has the potential for causing crop impaction and death.