- The HP Scanjet 5300c was designed as a white flatbed scanner. With a weight of 8.1 lbs., it had a 19.9-inch depth, 11.9-inch width and 4.1-inch height. Regarding document size, the scanner could accommodate up to 8.5 by 14 inches and 8.5 to 17 inches. Users could connect the 5300c to a computer using the USB or parallel port.
- The HP Scanjet 5300c's resolution numbers consisted of a 1,200-dots-per-inch optical resolution, 1,200 by 2,400 pixels in hardware resolution and 9,600 dpi in enhanced resolution. In terms of speed, it took less than 50 seconds to scan a 4-by-6-inch color photo or a full page of text into the Microsoft Word application, as well as less than 40 seconds for a black-and-white drawing. In all, the 5300c performed all its scans with a 36-bit color depth, and it had a Mean Time Between Failures reliability rating of 10,000 scans.
- The HP Scanjet 5300c supported the Bitmap (BMP), PDF, TIFF, TIFF Compressed, PCX, JPEG, FlashPix (FPX), GIF, PNG and Windows Meta File (WMF) image formats. For text, the scanner accommodated the HTML, TXT, Rich Text Format formats. A combination of text and images required a PDF, RTF or HTML format.
- Customers using the HP Scanjet 5300c with a Mac computer had to make sure that the latter had at least a Mac OS 8.5 operating system, Power PC processor and 32 megabytes of system memory. Microsoft Windows-based PCs counted Windows 95 operating system and a 90-megahertz Intel Pentium processor among its minimum requirements.
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