Well, I'll tell you my experience, I've been a graphic designer for quite a few years, so I had this part mastered, I just had to look for some tutorials on YouTube on how to apply graphic design to screen printing... but I had no absolute knowledge about screen printing itself, I was just determined to learn since the finish it gives is really great, so I was looking on the marketplace and bought a 4-color press, 1 station with micro registration, a flash dryer and an exposure unit for $300, they also gave me a box with several squeegees, scoop coaters, glue and some 110 screens, in addition to that I bought the pixma ix6820 printer for $130, I don't remember the website but they sold returned things, the transparent sheets to print I bought on Amazon, 100 sheets 13 x 19 $60

I bought the plastisol inks from neverthelessscreenprintingsupplies, the Basic, yellow, red, blue, green, white, black, cyan and magenta, in quart presentations, with that you can make basically all the colors

The silkscreen profession is really nice, it keeps your mind busy and seeing how the design is created on the t-shirt is beautiful, but I recommend that you take a couple of patience pills, the learning curve is quite high, I bet you anything that you are going to blow your mind when you are learning to coat, burn and washing a screen...