Epson Stylus Scan 2000 on Ubuntu

I had an old Epson Stylus Scan 2000 that windows XP had rendered useless (the 2k drivers refused to work on XP). I decided to give it a go under Ubuntu. It worked like a breeze or almost. Printing was as simple as connecting and adding a new printer from the configuration panel. Scanning was just a bit harder, i.e. a matter of helping xsane with the product and device identifiers unearthed here and adding usb 0x04b8 0x0105 to epson.conf in the /etc/sane.d directory.