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===Which one is right for me?===

Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked. Accept that going in.

Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked, and anyone telling you otherwise is a goddamned liar. Accept that going in.

Your choices are primarily FDM or MSLA. Well-known FDM options include Prusa, Ultimaker, Creality, Anycubic, and about four thousand other operations, including the ultra-hip Voron (a kit-only design for which you spend a few weeks sourcing parts, then more-or-less assemble over the course of several increasingly unhappy days). MSLA has only more recently arrived on the mass market, with Elegoo, Phrozen, Formlabs, and some of the FDM folks leading the way. You can acquire an entry-level FDM or MSLA printer for a few hundred dollars (FDM printers are now sometimes available at the $100 mark), with significant improvements available near $1000. At the professional level, choices begin at several thousand dollars, and go up pretty much without bound. I don't know anything about that world.

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 ===Which one is right for me?===
-Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked. Accept that going in.
+Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked, and anyone telling you otherwise is a goddamned liar. Accept that going in.
 Your choices are primarily FDM or MSLA. Well-known FDM options include Prusa, Ultimaker, Creality, Anycubic, and about four thousand other operations, including the ultra-hip Voron (a kit-only design for which you spend a few weeks sourcing parts, then more-or-less assemble over the course of several increasingly unhappy days). MSLA has only more recently arrived on the mass market, with Elegoo, Phrozen, Formlabs, and some of the FDM folks leading the way. You can acquire an entry-level FDM or MSLA printer for a few hundred dollars (FDM printers are now sometimes available at the $100 mark), with significant improvements available near $1000. At the professional level, choices begin at several thousand dollars, and go up pretty much without bound. I don't know anything about that world.