This invention pertains to an ink jet recording medium comprises a flexible
substrate and a coating composition coated on at least one surface of the substrate,
wherein the coating composition comprises the product formed from the contact between
fumed silica particles and at least one aminoorganosiloxane. The invention also
pertains to a method for the preparation of such an ink jet recording medium and
to methods for the preparation of a coating composition and a dispersion useful
in the preparation of such an ink jet recording medium.