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I have a Brother printer, it was like $90 and it works well. It's a B&W laser only but it does its job well and I can't complain. I replaced a Brother MFC inkjet only because the feeder was dying and the drivers weren't being updated anymore.

Printing as service doesn't make any sense unless someone was printing and mailing the output to me. That would actually be worthwhile for a lot of people.

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> Printing as service doesn't make any sense unless someone was printing and mailing the output to me. That would actually be worthwhile for a lot of people.

This is called a print shop, and has existed for basically as long as printers have. You might not like the prices they charge for a single print + mailing, though.

Which is a valid business model.

But doesn't make sense when you've personally purchased the machine to do the printing. At this point you should be your own print shop.

HP’s 20 pages for $7/month is MORE expensive than the FedEx shop ½ mile from my house charges and far more than the public library. It gets better if you go up to their pricier plans and actually need to print hundreds of color photographs per month but can’t wait for mail delivery, but this just seems like a very niche market with such high prices.

I am so happy that I search for "snail mail api" and got a bunch of seemingly legit results!

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