Patent ID: 6203899
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: B41M,Y10T

Abstract:
A printing medium, comprising a liquid-absorbent base material, an ink-receiving layer provided on the base material, which comprises a pigment, a binder and a cationic substance, and a surface layer of cationic ultrafine inorganic particles having a particle diameter ranging from 1 nm to 500 nm, said particles being particles of aluminum hydrate, or particles of silica the surface of which has been cationized with an organic substance, provided on the ink-receiving layer, the surface layer having a 75.degree. specular glossiness of 45% or higher,wherein the cationic substance is contained in the ink-receiving layer in a range of 0.01 to 7 g/m.sup.2, andthe liquid-absorbent base material has a Stockigt sizing degree in a range of 0 to 15 seconds.