Hi Ambriel,
In all honesty, unless you are slapping 20+ pigs at any one time do not bother with an ink pad - they take a lot of ink to pre ink them and unless used on a regular basis can tend to try out. We advise use of a toothbrush or small paintbrush to ink the pins.
So in effect there is no such thing as a starter kit from us, as the slappers and ink we sell are exactly the same as used by pig units slapping 1000's of pigs.
When comparing slappers and prices just watch out for ones that seem at first to be a good deal, until you start adding on the slapper characters at £3 - £5 each.
Our price includes the Slapper and a plate manufactured to your herdmark characters.
As an aside, we can also produce meat stamps to "brandmark" the cuts of meat with basically any text or logo you like.
And we have made it easy for anyone to visit our site - just click the banner at the bottom of any TAS Forum page.
Thanks