Is an infrared printer still worth getting?

[RMollov]

I'm not impressed with these printers at all. I've got one collecting dust (it's in a genuine leather pouch) for the last 30 years. Cons: slow, noisy, power-hungry, (thermal paper) printouts fade away with time. Last year I threw away two boxes of paper being around all that time.
AFAIC they are useless.