Abstract: There are disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a water resistant support, an ink-receptive layer containing inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of a primary particle of 3 to 30 nm on one surface of the support, and a back coating layer mainly comprising an organic polymer provided on an opposite surface of the support to the surface on which the ink-receptive layer is provided, wherein when an arithmetical mean roughness Ra measured with a cut off value of 0.8 mm regulated by JIS-B-0601-1994 of the surface on which the back coating layer has been provided of the water resistant support is made A &mgr;m, a density of the organic polymer in the back coating layer is made B g/cm3, and an amount of a solid component of the organic polymer provided as the back coating layer is made C g/cm2, then A is 1 to 5 &mgr;m and A, B and C satisfy the following formula (I): 0.6×A<C/B<6  (I) a recording method and a recorded material using the same.

Abstract: There are disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a water resistant support, an ink-receptive layer containing inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of a primary particle of 3 to 30 nm on one surface of the support, and a back coating layer mainly comprising an organic polymer provided on an opposite surface of the support to the surface on which the ink-receptive layer is provided, wherein when an arithmetical mean roughness Ra measured with a cut off value of 0.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a support, and an ink-receptive layer containing fumed silica having an average primary particle size of 3 nm to 30 nm provided on the support, wherein said ink-receptive layer contains a cationic compound and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a sulfur-containing compound having no mercapto group, an amine compound, an amino compound and a saccharide, and a pH of the surface of the ink-jet recording material is 3 to 6.

Abstract: An ink jet recording medium which comprises a support and a layer comprising fine particles of a thermoplastic organic polymer, formed on at least one side of the support, so that said fine particles of a thermoplastic organic polymer are dissolved or melted after ink jet recording to form a layer wherein said fine particles of a thermoplastic organic polymer are fused to one another, wherein said fine particles of a thermoplastic organic polymer have an average particle size within a range of from 1 to 20 &mgr;m.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a support, and an ink-receptive layer containing fumed silica having an average primary particle size of 3 nm to 30 nm provided on the support, wherein said ink-receptive layer contains a cationic compound and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a sulfur-containing compound having no mercapto group, an amine compound, an amino compound and a saccharide, and a pH of the surface of the ink-jet recording material is 3 to 6.