What's everybody doing with their Snaplabs? Are they all just garbage?

The studio for which I work has several Sony Snaplab dye-sublimation printers that have been workhorses for us. A few years ago, Sony stopped making supplies for them and, more recently, the 3rd party suppliers we used also stopped production.

Does anybody know of any current manufacturers of paper & ink ribbons? Or does anyone have any secret caches of supplies they are willing to sell?

Anybody need to buy one for spare parts? Can they be repurposed? Or are these now fancy paperweights?

It's a shame because those printers were great units that didn't rely on a separate laptop to function! Kinda sad to see the end of an era.