Patent ID: 8628832

Claim:
A recording medium comprising: a base; and at least one ink-receiving layer, wherein a first ink-receiving layer that is at least one ink-receiving layer contains inorganic particles having an average primary particle size of 1 μm or less and inorganic particles coated with a metal oxide, the inorganic particles coated with the metal oxide have an average primary particle size of 15.0 μm or more, and when the maximum of a FLOP value of the recording medium represented by the formula below is denoted by FLOP Max and the minimum of the FLOP value is denoted by FLOP Min , the FLOP Min is 2.5 or more and a value of FLOP Min /FLOP Max is 0.80 or more and 1.00 or less: FLOP value=2.69×( L* 15° −L* 110°) 1.11 /L* 45° 0.86 where L* 15° denotes a brightness of reflected light at an offset angle of 15°, L* 45° denotes a brightness of reflected light at an offset angle of 45°, and L* 110° denotes a brightness of reflected light at an offset angle of 110°.