Abstract: A recording material for use in a pressure sensitive copying system has an undercoating layer which is formed on a surface of a base sheet and on which a color former coating layer including microcapsules each encapsulating an oil droplet containing a color former material dissolved or dispersed therein. The undercoating layer comprises finely divided inorganic pigment particles and a binder and is substantially unreactive with the color former material included in the color former layer.

Abstract: The recording material comprises a base sheet and a color former coating layer formed on a surface of the base sheet and the color former coating layer is formed by coating a surface of the base sheet with a coating composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of microcapsules each encapsulating a hydrophobic color former material therein and having a capsule wall of a gelated hydrophilic colloid material. The dispersion further includes(a) a hardener for the hydrophilic colloid material and(b) a water soluble alkali salt of a copolymer of at least one olefinic monocarboxylic acid with at least one monomer copolymerizable with the olefinic monocarboxylic acid.