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Originally Posted by Kim34
I'm planning to add a 3D printer. Everyone suggest me Prusa. But I'm little bit confused on It will be small usage. Is it worthy to spent much on prusa? or any suggestion on other 3D printer?
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Prusa is worth the money, if the money doesn't break the bank.
The thing is that Prusa (the company and the founder) has put years of work into designing and building a printer that "just works". Excellent calibration and print quality out of the box. It's not necessarily "better" than a cheaper printer that's been tweaked and modified and painstakingly calibrated, and you can still wring out a bit more perfection from a Prusa through additional mods and calibration.
The difference that you're paying for is that immediate high quality printing.
If your skills are much stronger in the digital realm, the Prusa makes it easy to take your 3D skills and make them into perfect printed reality. If your skills are more in the "tinkering with machines" realm you can certainly improve the Prusa's output but there's less to gain. You could get an Ender 3 Pro, for example, and improve it with any of literally hundreds of mods already published online and make it into a worthy competitor to the Prusa and save yourself a lot of money in the long run, at the expense of investing a lot of your personal time.
So think of it that way: you're spending several hundred dollars more to get a 3D printer that saves you hundreds of hours of tinkering to achieve print quality of a very high caliber.