Unfreeze Epson Perfection 2480 flat-bed scanner from GNU/Linux

So I have been happily using my Epson Perfection 2480 Photo for years from Microsoft Windows 7 , Microsoft Windows 10 , and various GNU/Linux distributions, and it's still going strong. Occasionally, for mysterious reasons it freezes, and when it does the only way I can get it to reset, which is indicated by a brief activation of the scanning arm, is to plug it into a Microsoft Windows system. I have found no way to reset it solely from GNU/Linux , which is currently my preferred operating system. This is a summary of my Arch Linux SANE configuration: I've been using for a few years now Arch L

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