You'll like it. Don't cheap out too much. I think the polish that careful manufacturers like Prusa add is worth paying for. I started with a Tiertime printer

You'll like it. Don't cheap out too much. I think the polish that careful manufacturers like Prusa add is worth paying for. I started with a Tiertime printer and it made me so unhappy that I bought a Prusa i3 a month later. Skip that step and go right to the good stuff. The best step for me was that I got the kit, so I put every part together myself. When something breaks, I know exactly how it's put together. (I have broken something by being an idiot and ... printed a replacement part and was back up and running the same day.) The Prusa Mini is very reasonably priced, but I haven't used it and I'm not sure the build area is enough for what you have in mind.