Please provide me feedback on 3D printers

[DavidO]

Hello,

My company is looking to purchase a 3D printer for making models of our equipment for marketing purposes. We build equipment for use in the oil and gas industry so all our stuff is big and will obviously be scaled down significantly from my 1:1 SolidWorks model for printing.
I have a budget of up to $15K ($5-10K would be ideal) and am leaning towards ABS plastic as the model medium, but am open to opinions on other materials. These will be used in meetings, as giveaways to clients, etc. so will be handled pretty frequently so a reasonable amount of durability is desired. I am familiar with the Dimension line of ABS printers and looked at the Uprint models but these still seem to have the same crappy 0.010 layer resolution that they had 10 years ago when I used to sell them. I am looking for a higher resolution as there will be small features on the assembly due to scaling that I would like to come across in the printed model.

Some of the units I have researched online are:
Ultimaker 2 (seems to be reviewed well online)
Cube Pro (mixed reviews online)
Makerbot Replicator 2x (have read bad reviews about this unit)
Uprint SE (seems like a scaled down version of the older Dimension units and consumables are outrageously priced as before)

So to summarize:

• up to $15K budget
• higher resolution
• ABS plastic (but open to other materials)
• reliability and ease of servicing
• consumables reasonably priced
• reasonable build size

Many thanks for your assistance.

Regards,
David O.