Epson CX 1500 on ubuntu linux

Epson's CX1500 works pretty fine on Linux. All I had to do to get it running was to "add the printer" with the GUI (the windows way) which was auto detected. Something to rejoice for non-geeks using Linux. The only catch was that though gimp-print (or gutenprint) supports the printer, the printer wasn't in the list on the Dialog that props up the available drivers... not even with the latest gimp-print - the gutenprint package. Searching around on Google BlogSearch led me to a fellow Indian's blog who had got it working by selecting the model "Stylus-C42UX" instead. Scanner too gets detected, but I haven't braved to scan documents with this machine on Linux, yet.