Patent ID: 8628839

Claim:
A recording medium comprising a substrate, a magnetic material inside the substrate, and a surface layer on the substrate, and having wherein the Taber abrasion amount of the recording medium is about 10 mg or less; wherein the magnetic material has a Fe—Co—Si-based amorphous magnetic material as its basic component, and the substrate comprises a fiber obtained by i) impregnating a pulp fiber with a synthetic resin, or ii) thermally fusing a synthetic resin into a pulp fiber, wherein the synthetic resin is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride and polyester; and the surface layer has a dry mass of about 0.8 to 3.0 g/m 2 containing a material selected from the group consisting of a polyvinyl alcohol having a saponification degree of about 90 mol % or more, a modified polyvinyl alcohol, a styrene-anhydrous maleic acid copolymer, a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, a styrene-butadiene copolymer, and a polyacrylic acid ester.