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Never seen a change machine cost money in a casino. ATM always costs money and usually more than a standard one outside of a casino.
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The fairest machine in the casino

Genuinely took me too long to realize this wasn't the "Who's the fairest maiden in the land?" kind of fair. >

"O change machine, thou art the fairest of them all!" Sayeth he who a dollar lost but rejoices as he collecteth his quarters four. >

Though he sayeth such to the Fairest in Casino, he who foundeth much comfort in the equivalent exchange rate - sought he yet to bartereth with splendor and glamour, his quarters four shown surely to maketh gain for the meager cost of a nickle! >

Gambleth he forth his last quarters four,
Lost are they now, his dollar is ancient lore,
He wonders, ponders, his wealth of yore,
Quoth the Casino, "Nevermore". >

1 of paper = 4 of coin, just make sure the mushrooms on top, and wait! JACKPROT! >

It's easy ya dingus. Win every time. Just watch out for crasino hunks. I hear they break bones if you talk with a sass mouth. >

An old joke I heard:
A worker at a casino sees an old man standing in front of a change machine putting in bills and getting change.  Every time he does, he shouts "Yaay, I win!".  The worker thinks it's both nice and a little sad and that the man may be demented.
The worker leaves for lunch and comes back to find the front of the machine open and a maintenance person working on it.  He asks what's up, and the maintenance person says the machine is broken and has been giving 5 quarters for each dollar. >

Lol, he got rich from quarters >

We 6 electronic pulltab machines at the bar I work at.  We’ll usually ask if they want a specific one, or if they want to play ‘box seven’ because it pays out better.  
‘Box seven’ is the ATM. >

On the way to the casino recently we stopped at a 7/11 to use the ATM and my buddy got short-changed by the machine. Not many worse feelings than entering the casino down 40 bucks because you were robbed by the bank. >

There are very rare occurrences of machines having higher than 100% return with perfect play. One of my grandpa's friends who professionally plays video poker (actually comes out ahead in the long run) found a video poker machine that the pay tables he computed to be 100.5%. He spent 3 days at that machine, maximum bet. The 3rd day there, a security person came by and asked for him to get up because they were changing the machine. He gave an innocent, "Aww, but I'm on a roll." The security guard leaned down and said, "We estimate you've made about $65,000 the past 3 days. I'm asking you to leave." He was like, "Ok, fair," and left, and they changed that machine out. He'd actually made about $70k. >

very low max bet on the 100+ ones >

Haha yeah the casinos try not to have any 100+ machines, but once in a while it'll slip through. >

Old joke was playing the pay phones.
Insert coins, pull level, get payout! >

I went to a local casino and when I went to cash out I inserted my voucher into the cash machine and it only dispensed bills. It gave me a new voucher for the coins. 37 cents. What kind of thievery is this? >

You'd want to check with /r/gambling on that, but j watched a YT video last week about the worst things in Vegas and that was one of them. They started it during the change shortage and now want you to not bother redeeming your 37 cent voucher at the cashier cage. >

Changing machines usually costs money at casinos. ATMs definitely do