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There's a number of arguments and you'll get all of them in response to this question.
1) Buy a cheap chinese kit to learn on and tune/improve/develop/replace completely with decent parts - its cheap (at first), seriously time consuming but you learn a lot.
2) Buy an expensive printer to begin with, not time consuming but there will be very little learning about 3d printing until it goes wrong which is inevitable given what we're actually doing and the fact that this technology is fairly new - unless you're talking about $30000 industrial machines which have been around a long time.
3) Build a serious printer from scratch, it can be done I am told, even by non-engineers, it will be expensive and time consuming but at the end of it, assuming you stay the course, you learned a lot and have a really good printer (which you built) to show for it.
4) The route I took, buy a ready built second hand printer, and fix it up, this was time consuming but I learned a lot (I'd say more than I would building a good kit, maybe the same as building a bad kit), then build a kit from scratch, then heavily modify or enlarge a kit printer. My next step might be to design and build my own printer. This will almost certainly be the expensive, high quality type that many people who've built them say is the only printer worth having. They are often engineers, or did a lot of research and are fast learners and are generally very competent and skilled individuals. The only issue is unless you're fully committed at the start and don't give up easily the costs and time involved might be too much and you end up not having a 3d printer and experiencing the joy (and pain) that 3d printing has to offer.
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