Patent ID: 8795798

Claim:
A method for producing a recording medium, comprising a step of coating one or more ink receiving layers provided on at least one surface of a substrate with an outermost layer coating liquid to form an outermost layer, wherein an ink receiving layer, of the one or more ink receiving layers, which is nearest to the outermost layer contains alumina hydrate and a binder, wherein the outermost layer coating liquid contains monodispersive and spherical cationic colloidal silica particles having an average particle size between 30 nm and 60 nm, inclusive, polyvinyl alcohol having a saponification degree between 75% by mol and 85% by mol, inclusive, and a viscosity-average polymerization degree between 1,500 and 2,200, inclusive, and cationic polyurethane emulsion particles having an average particle size between 10 nm and 100 nm, inclusive.