Patent ID: 7160608

Claim:
A coated paper comprised of a paper substrate, at least one surface of which is provided with at least one coating layer, characterized in that the surface of said coating layer has cracks of a width of 0.2 to 3.0 μm and a length of 3 to 1000 μm in an amount of 1 to 1000 cracks per mm 2 ; wherein said surface of said coating layer has a white paper glossiness of 45 to 85% at a light-incident arid receipt angle of 75 degrees in accordance with JIS S 8741 and an Oken type air permeability of not more than 8000 sec. in accordance with the JAPAN TAPPI Pulp and Paper Testing Method No. 5-2:000; said coating layer contains thermoplastic organic microparticles having a glass transition temperature of 20 to 150° C.; and, 100 parts by mass of said coating layer contains 40 to 90 parts by mass of an inorganic pigment and 5 to 60 parts by mass of said thermoplastic organic microparticles.