Patent ID: 7182984

Claim:
An ink jet-printing medium comprising a substrate and an ink-receptive layer which comprises at least one layer and is formed on at least one major surface of the substrate, wherein at least one layer of the ink-receptive layer contains fibrous fine powder as a pigment in an amount of at least 80% by weight of the total weight of the whole pigment contained in the layer which contains the fibrous fine powder, wherein an average length or average particle size of said fibrous fine powder is 10 to 85 μm, wherein the substrate comprises a paper sheet or a resin film, wherein said fibrous fine powder comprises at least one fibrous material selected from cellulose, cotton, silk, wool and chitosan, and wherein said ink-receptive layer contains 14 to 50% by weight of polyvinyl alcohol, and 4% by weight or less of a cationic agent.