How To Fix : Scanner Error 100016 in Epson Printer 4750

The Epson scanner error 100016 is an error which basically occurs/persists due to drivers of Epson printers. The printer driver might be installed incorrectly or get outdated, which results in the slow printing. Such issues not only hinders your work speed but also make printing tasks more hectic. In order to fix the 100016 error then you need to reinstall the Epson printer /scanner driver.

Causes of Error 100016

1. The root cause of error 100016 in the printer is not correctly installed Epson printer driver which results in slow speed.

2. There are most users who face the problem of 100016 Epson error after the reinstallation of the drivers but the Epson scanner error 100016 will only be removed if the drivers are uninstalled from computer root and not with simple uninstallation.

3. Error100016 occurs due to a software updating issue, or a hardware problem of the printer device.

4. For error 100016 issue there are problems of preferences files

5. Kernel panic issues

6. Full usage of startup disk and hard disk

7. Installed application issue

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Ways to fix this error

There are some steps to solve this error:

1. Firstly, 4750 printer drivers to be totally uninstalled.

2. Then, press and hold the windows Logo key and R Key on the Primary PC screen.

3. A little Run Box will appear on the bottom left of the screen, type in print management. You need to input the “.msc” in the search bar. Then hit the OK button.

4. After this, the print management window will show up. You can use the drop-down menu for more and detailed options.

5. Search for drivers and click on it. There on the right side of the window, there will be a list of all the currently installed and previously printer drivers.

6. Then select Epson printer 4750 printer driver, right click on the printer and select Remove Driver Package.

7. When all the information has been collected, then the delete button will be highlighted.

8. Once done, hit the “Delete” option.

9. After deleting the printer driver, restart the system and proceed to Epson the support page to download and install the latest drivers for the printer.

Printer Error on windows 7, 8 and 10

Whenever you’ll get an error with an event ID 100016 then there might be chances that the program is trying to start the DCOM server by using the DCOM infrastructure, however the user doesn’t have necessary permissions to perform such activity.

How to fix Error 100016 on windows 7,8 and 10

There are some steps in this method.

1. Give the sufficient Permissions to the App causing the error – At the same time press windows and R keys on keyboard, and type “Registry editor” and hit the OK option to proceed further.

2. From the Registry Editor, expand the H KEY_CLASSES _ROOT folder, and the CLSID folder inside.

3. Find the folder with the CLSID you received in the error message.

4. Now right click on it and select “permissions” and click on “Advanced”.

5. Click At the top, you will see the owner –change it to the Administrators group.

6. At the bottom of the owner window, also select Replace all child object permissions entries. Hit the OK tab to proceed. Now tap the “Yes” for “Windows Security Warning”.

7. Back in the main permissions window, click Add, enter ‘’Everyone ‘’and click OK. Again, select Everyone from the list of users in the top and select full control from the Allow column in the bottom half. Clock OK.

8. Apply full control. Once finished expand the H KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Inside, expand these folders

9. Go to the folder which has the same APPID received in the error message. Right click and choose permissions and select Advanced.

10. Using steps 4 through 6 give the APP sufficient permissions.

11. While looking at the folders with CLSID and APPID, you see a registry key with the name of the service causing the issue.

12. Press windows key, either type control panel and open the result. Then switch to the icons view at the top right and open Administrative Tools. Open component services and then computer followed by my computer.

13. Find the service causing the issue, right click it and select properties. Then the Security tab.

14. If items are greyed repeat previous steps.

15. Repeat steps for CISID and APPID values listed in event logs. Once done with the above fixation steps, now perform a “Reboot”.

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Method 2: Delete Registry Keys

1. Click the window button in the search box type Registry Editor. Navigate to the key. Then delete the keys.

2. Save changes and restart the system.

3. After deleting the keys from the registry the default permissions will be written for the system.

Technical support for error 100016

If the error is still there after fixing it then connect on Epson Printer Support. For proper and trusted assistance. You can also visit their official site on www.epson.co.in.