Patent ID: 7615266

Claim:
An ink jet recording material comprising: a polyolefin resin-covered paper substrate, an MD direction Taber stiffness of which is at least 3 mN·m; an ink absorption layer principally including fumed silica and a layer principally including colloidal silica, in this order at one face of the substrate; and a backcoat layer principally of polyurethane resin at an opposite face of the substrate, wherein the ink absorption layer includes a thioether-based compound, a polyolefin resin layer at a side of the substrate at which the ink absorption layer is to be provided includes an fluorescent brightening agent and a white pigment, a solid content coating amount of the colloidal silica is 0.05 to 0.3 g/m 2 , a solid content coating amount of the polyurethane resin is 0.8 to 1.5 g/m 2 , and a 20° glossiness of a blank portion of a face of the recording material that features the ink absorption layer is 40 to 60%.