Under 500
Are you comfortable, at all, with software dev/coding? The reason I'm asking is because there's a big gap in what's available. If so @beaudacious is spot on with creality products. If you're not then I'd highly recommend something from prusa3d but you'll be going well above your point.
The two main things that you want on a printer is auto bed leveling and heat control. The later is both heat dissipation and retention.
I’m not familiar with coding at all but it’s something I’d like to push my kid into figuring out. When in doubt there’s probably a video on YouTube on it
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