Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

Shunichi Teramasa

Takashi Ueno

Yoshihiro Kuroyama

Teruhisa Shimada

Tomonobu Ohmura

Provided is a cast-coated paper suitable for ink jet recording which is produced in a process comprising a step of coating at least one side of a base paper with a coating composition comprising a pigment and a water base binder and a step of pressing the coated layer against a heated specular metal surface while the coated layer is in a wet condition; with the pigment comprising a synthetic silica having a BET specific surface area of 200-600 m.sup.2 /g in a proportion of at least 40 weight %, and with the water base binder comprising an hydrophilic urethane resin and casein in a mixing ratio of from 0.1 to 20 by weight.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shunichi Teramasa