colin

yeah! actually, a few different ones, depending on how hands-on you want to get with it and in what sense your budget is $1000.

as cheap as practical, but in no event more than $1000

the sovol SV06 ($210) is well-reviewed and solid; it's completely supplanted the Ender 3 and its successors as the "decent printer on a budget" pick. it's no worse in any way than the lulzbot mini except that the bed doesn't get quite as hot, and it's significantly better in some ways -- bigger build volume, more modern firmware, mesh bed leveling, a newer extruder design that's better for flexible filament.

closer to $1000 and I want to be able to unbox it and go

bambu lab, run by engineers formerly at DJI, makes a ready-to-go printer available at three different price points: the P1P costs $600 and comes without an enclosure, camera, or auxiliary part cooling fan, the P1S costs $700 and comes with all of those, and the X1 Carbon is out of your price range but comes with all of those as well as a laser sensor for calibrating the extruder. they also make the most mature and trouble-free multi-material system on the market for multicolor/multimaterial prints. they do, however, have kind of a standoffish relationship with people designing third-party mods and accessories, there have been some software reliability problems, and the machine is not designed to be particularly user-serviceable.

if you're willing to forego multimaterial printing, qidi tech's $700 x-plus 3 is a machine in the same vein as the bambu series (more or less comparable to the P1S, with some added features like an actively heated chamber for ASA/ABS/polycarbonate/nylon); its software is also less locked-down. when it was first released it had some reliability issues, but after review units started getting mixed reviews, qidi took the unusual step of completely halting sales, redesigning several aspects of it, and then putting it back on the market -- the redesigned version has been very positively received but it's also only been out for a month so some lurking problems may not have revealed themselves yet.

closer to $1000 but I want a Project

okay, how much of a project?

10-15 hours: prusa research just released the mk4 as an $800 kit ($1100 fully assembled), which has completely calibration-free bed leveling, a new hotend that allows for tool-free nozzle swaps, and a planetary-gear extruder that is apparently extremely consistent and reliable. historically, prusa has been very friendly to the open hardware community -- a lot of cheap 3d printers are clones of prusa's venerable reprap mendel i3 -- but they haven't been as proactive in providing schematics and source code with the mk4 to cut down on the amount of sales they lose to cheap clones.

40+ hours: check out formbot's kit for the voron trident, a completely open-source printer design. metal + electronic + acrylic parts are $650; printed functional parts are another $110 through voron's community "print it forward" program and you'll need another $50 of ABS to print enclosure mounting hardware and covers for the electronics bay, so that's a total price of about $800. why would you bother with this when it's the same price as a prusa? the mechanical design of the voron can achieve higher speeds than the prusa, it's more space efficient, and it comes with an enclosure that allows you to print materials that require an enclosed build volume. there's also an extremely extensive modding community that has released open-source multimaterial units, trident conversions for independent dual extrusion, a toolhead-mounted bambu-style laser sensor, etc.

however, it is very much a Project in the sense of Project Car -- while I can reliably get good-looking prints off of my voron, I also have some work I need to do on it that realistically you might not want to mess with unless you Really Like Printing.