Magnetic recording medium and a method for producing the same wherein the medium has two magnetic layers differing in degree of orientation

A method for producing a magnetic recording medium having a non-magnetic supporting member and a plurality of magnetic layers formed on at least one major surface of the nonmagnetic supporting member, said plurality of magnetic layers including an uppermost longitudinally oriented magnetic layer located uppermost and a lower longitudinally oriented magnetic layer located between the nonmagnetic supporting member and the uppermost longitudinally oriented magnetic layer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a nonmagnetic supporting member;
• coating on the base support, a lower magnetic coating having a needle-like crystal ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a first binder ingredient and an uppermost magnetic coating having hexagonal system ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a second binder ingredient;
• simultaneously regulating the longitudinal orientation rates of said lower magnetic coating and said uppermost magnetic coating, the longitudinal orientation rate of said uppermost magnetic coating being at least 0.5 and being smaller than the longitudinal orientation rate of said lower magnetic coating, the longitudinal orientation rate of said lower magnetic coating being at least 0.68;
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• drying said uppermost magnetic coating and said lower magnetic coating to form the uppermost longitudinally oriented magnetic layer and a lower longitudinally oriented magnetic layer.