Thinking of getting my engineer son a 3-D printer for Christmas. Thought some of you sharp people who have one could recommend a good one for him. $300-400 price. I know they have come down a lot and thought maybe that price would get him something good to play with and maybe print some stuff for me!

I can finally add to this topic although very late.  After a good bit of research I went with Bambu Lab and got the H2D.  They have generally been considered well polished from an experience perspective. 

been too afraid to jump in the water! 🤢

One thing I will add is the fumes, I see this topic in the 3d printer forums not taken seriously at all. Many have open printers with no enclosure and those that do have enclosures have weak fans and not designed correctly. I literally just upgraded to a high power radon fan mounted outside the house to create the necessary vacuum inside the primary and secondary enclosures I have that should now truly keep fumes from escaping. Haven't tested it yet. Prior to this despite all efforts fumes were still escaping filling the house. No one else in the house could smell them or notice it but I could and was for me a major irritant to the eyes etc. But I think that is why most dont feel compelled to go to great lengths like I have on fume extraction because they simply dont realize they are there. I just dont think this stuff is good to breathe.

I would recommend looking at the Bambu lab line of printers (I'm sure plenty of other opinions out there). Sounds like Bambu is going to release an H1D version with only 1 printer head which is probably what I would have preferred.

Are the Bambu all filament printers?

Are resin printers better for details I need to print like engine steps and such?