So personally I would always say a swing away is the way forward for smaller jobs. You dont need automatic opening its a bit pointless as your going to be next to it when the timing is up as you will want to re-load potentially any way. Unless you are doing 100's of t shirt and other items interchangeable platterns seems pointless to me, I do t-shirts, metal prints, mdf and glass coasters etc all in the same machine. Mugs go in the oven.