I am new to this and was lookin for a good quality reasonably priced printer can anybody point me in the right direction?
You’ve got to define “reasonably priced”. It’s different for everybody.
@ThantiK ha! Like the new pic.
@Jeremiah_Ross 2k is a good budget. Do you want to build it yourself out buy pre built?
Honestly, for “Around $2000” I can pretty much recommend the Ultimaker hands down. @Nils_Hitze is going to own 3 of them. @Mark_Moissette_ckaos owns one and has been impressed with it. I don’t own one personally, but my hackerspace got one (I actually don’t use it!) and the people there that were afraid to use the repraps are having a hell of a time using the Ultimaker constantly. It produces quality prints, quickly, with little hassle.
That is…unless you want to print with a heated bed (sometimes required for ABS, Nylon, etc). But they have an addon for a heated bed coming out soon…or so I’ve heard. But as far as quality goes, the ultimaker is second to none in my opinion.
Second the ultimaker recommendation, I’ve not come across anyone that owns one that isn’t happy with it.
I am designing my own 3d printer… i hope i finish it until november. It would be better than ultimaker, i hope.
@George_Salgueiro , Why would yours be better exactly? The Ultimaker has all of their stuff down-pat. There’s very little you could do to improve upon it. Couple things I can think of would be T-Slot frame, Heated Bed, but those modifications are already covered by others like @Tim_Rastall and the general reprap community. I also see absolutely nothing posted about 3D printing in your posts (it’s all political BS) which makes me believe that you’ve got a lot to learn before attempting to design a printer. I’m only just now beginning to think I know enough and I’ve got 2 years of the stuff under my belt.
Sorry if it sounds like I’m coming off harsh, but there are a lot of people out there who overestimate their abilities and think “oh, a 3D printer, that’s EASY” - it’s not. There are a lot of little nuances you’ve got to account for, most of which these machines have had the time to fix over the years.
We have designed ours, named BadPrinter2, but it is in a prototype phase, so we don’t sell right now, but we hope in the future and we think can cost around 1600€, it is an H-bot style and have heated bed and double hot end. If you are curious about it you can check our work at http://baddevices.wordpress.com Regarding what written by @ThantiK I completely agree, it needs a lot of practice and experience to design a good machine and we learn a lot from the first iteration of our printer. Now we are quite satisfied by the BadPrinter2, but we know that there will be a lot of work to do to improve more 
Double agree with @ThantiK and @Stefano_Pavanello Designing a printer - even if it’s a variant of another design is HARD. The guys that came up with the Ultimaker were frickin geniuses. As @ThantiK say’s I’m working on a printer that expands the build area and takes a bunch of learnings from the Tantillus printer (awesome but small) but I would never want to say it’s better than an Ultimaker. The Ultimaker is also one of the handful of machines out there that has a bespoke slicing tool (Cura) which means you don’t have to spend weeks/months tweaking settings to get a good print.
Based on glowing comments on forums alone, you can observe people’s satisfaction with Ultimaker. I have a friend that let me use his. I must say, if I had the money, I would have bought one instead of the kit I have. It will save you time and headaches in getting it to work, and I can’t even dream of getting that type of part quality on my machine.
If you’re dead set on using abs however and you are new to 3d printing, adding the mods will be a bit of an adventure. I have a friend who has an affinia, that prints great abs out of the box, after calibration of course. The affinia does not have the capabilities of the Ultimaker but it is a nice machine if you must have abs.
Just a note, if you’re new to 3d printing and you start off with abs, you’re gonna have a bad time 
I suggest finding a hacker space near you and going there to checkout their printers. Most people have the wrong expectations when it comes to 3d printing.
True Shachar - i still get some broken Prints even with the Ultimaker
hackerspace is a place where people come together to build things. Most big cities have at least one. Most hackerspaces have at least one 3d printer.
ABS is plastic.
Printing alloys in possible, but only with high-end printers that cost hundred of thousands of dollars.
@Jeremiah_Ross abs is the plastic that Lego’s are made from, more durable than pla, but pla is much easier to print with. If you want to print alloys, I’d suggest shapeways. Only large defense contractors like lockheed can afford metal sintering machines.
Before you look into buying, I’d spend some time on the forums here, on http://reprap.org, and on various 3d printer pages.
Reprapmagazine.com has a free online magazine. Check out issue 1, in the beginner space section, which does a decent job of explaining things.
I also suggest reading ‘practical 3d printers’ by B.Evans. It’s a bit dated but still relevant.
Building a 3d printer is not for the faint of heart, even with an Ultimaker. Be prepared for some frustration. Best advice is to know when to walk away from your bot to cool off, as mine has been very close to being drop kicked out the door, and I accidentally smoked a $75 vikilcd controller because I was tired and rushing.
Good luck and welcome
@Jeremiah_Ross yeah, pretty much anything. As long as you have the money, the experience, the materials science, etc in your repertoire. Sky is the limit. Also your wallet.
With normal 3d printers, pla, abs, nylon, polycarbonate, wood like laywood, and some interesting new clear fda approved plastics that people are posting about. They all pose different challenges and limitations. There are ways to extrude chocolate, icing, and dough, but I haven’t seen it look that nice, as they pretty much use a syringe for this.
I’d start with PLA and go from there. I still have a new roll of abs sitting in my room because I have bed heating issues I need to work out, so beware of eyes being bigger than the stomach. I am definitely guilty of that
…you’re killin’ us here man…
I REALLY suggest reading up before building/using your printer. You’d be shocked how common most of your problems will be. To answer your question, some printers come with firmware, others do not, which means you get to learn how to use the Arduino IDE, which is a learning experience on its own. As for software, you really do need to read up on the toolchains. You need to generate the STL, which you can get from thingiverse, or generate yourself with CAD software (cost prohibitive for professional grade packages). Then you need to slice your model into gcode. Then you need a printer controller to stream the sliced gcode to your printer. But be aware, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PIECES will be tweaked endlessly. This does not even get into the endless calibration of both software and hardware. This is like the HAM radio of this generation, most of the enjoyment is in the journey.
Case in point, I’ve been gradually printing at higher and higher quality by tweaking parameters, tweaking mechanical parts, and adding new parts to my bot. As of today, my prints are crap again. Why? couldn’t tell you. Possibly, when my extruder got jammed, I may not have retightened it well enough, maybe too tight. Maybe when I reflashed my firmware to attempt to PWM control my new fan, I accidentally flashed an old version with bad parameters. Maybe I changed one of the umpteen million parameters in slic3r wrong.
My point is, try not to put the horse ahead of the cart. I also got very excited when I went to buy a kit. I did some research, but pretty much bought one of the only kits within my budget. I had to wait 10 months for my kit to arrive (a kickstarter), but during that time, I read and read and read. Probably more because I was impatient to get my kit, but it was for the better.
Nevertheless, when I got my bot, I was STILL overwhelmed, and at times hopeless. I consider myself pretty handy when it comes to mechanics, electronics, and software, but I now I can add slightly arrogant to that list, as I truly underestimated the challenges that lied ahead.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s great fun, but don’t get into 3D printing because you expect really great parts. Get into it because you enjoy the process of building and troubleshooting, and learning the technology from the ground up. I believe me, you’ll be learning it from the ground up.
Good luck my friend