Depends on what you want to do and budget. Wanting to print off 3d chotchkies just cuz? Elegoo or Creality filament printers are a good starting point. Wanting to print miniatures for 40k or DnD? You want resin, and I know fuck-all about resin printers. Want to print prototypes of stuff in different colors as quick as you can? Bambu makes nice printers. Prusa m4’s are the gold standard. They don’t print fast , don’t print slow, they just work, work well, and work dependably for the most part.

Theres a lot to learn, frankly. Hardware, types of filament, slicing software, slicing software settings, etc etc.

I have an Ender 3 S1 that’s been taken apart and heavily modified over time. It’s a 450 dollar printer I’ve put another 250-350 in to. It’s quiet. I can get it to print quickly, and along with input shaping I can get it to print pretty quality parts. But given the fact that I’ve dumped 750-ish into it, and knowing what I know now I’d probably have been better off buying a different machine entirely.

I watched vids for a month straight then started looking at printers in the price range I could afford. Then I started watching product reviews about the printers I got interested in, and just compared everything.