You are looking at three great machines. Remember, if you think down the road you would invest in an automatic, the platens on the Kruzer work on the M&R automatics as well. The Vastex V-1000 and HD2000 are excellent choices, and, if I were to choose between those two I would lean towards the HD2000 because it is made to add stations as you may want to go to six stations. When you get better at printing and get more and more business, you will realize six colors is quite valuable. Then, the Kruzer only comes standard with six colors and four platens and it would be the easiest on the wallet.