Another Enders - looks identical to Martin's above #14 &15.
We gave my son (engineering student) an Ender for xmass he chose to get it on Bangood for £200 rather than amazon for £280. He has loved it and prints loads of things, and his uni freinds used it a loads. He has made me an insert into the coffee grinder that allows it to fit my old 1950s Italian coffee machine's basket into the filter slot. Good suggestion about dust ports, I'll get him onto that, all mine tools have odd sizes
The Enders uses filament plastic, he uses PLA which is quite cheap, but a bit stiff for all his work. I presume you can buy speciality nylons for tougher jobs.
He strongly recommends filament machine for a beginner over resin systems as the later need a lot of careful controlling. The resin can set or go wrong (resin systems allow for finer detail). He has friends with both and the later need careful handling, for instance sunlight will set the resin.
The Ender has quite a large bed, so can do quite large objects.
In my view, he seems to have a fair number of fails, or did at the start. Early on it took a few goes to get the designs to print properly - they can get detached mid print if too fiddly etc, so it takes a bit of practice. Not unlike most cabinet making. The programmes allow for different fill densities so there is a whole new engineering polymer field to master.
He says he prefers to manually adjust the bed alignment as he can achieve better alignment than auto-align can at that price point.
If you go down that path, he can probably answer your questions as he will at home this autumn looking for a job.....
