an adhesive a modified styrene butadiene copolymer latex was employed in addition to the starch as prepared in example 1 in order to improve the pick strength of the final coated paper twenty parts by weight of the total amount of the starch and the latex was used to 100 parts by weight of kaolin the starch was directly added to the 70 kaolin suspension as prepared in example 2 in a proportion ranging from 75 to 15 by weight of the total amount of the starch and the latex the latex was then added in a proportion ranging from 25 to 85 by weight of the same the resulting mixture was adjusted to a ph of 9 by ammonium hydroxide followed by the addition of an adequate amount of diluting water resulting in a coating color with a 50 solid content the composition of which was as follows ______________________________________kaolin uw 90 100 parts by weightsodium polyacrylate 0 2 parts by weightstarch solid styrene butadienecopolymer latex 20 parts by weight japan syntheticgum co jsr 0692 calcium stearate 1 5 parts by weightammonium hydroxide adequate amount ______________________________________ the above coating color was used to prepare coated paper according to the same technique as in example 2 a control coating color was prepared through the same procedures as for the control coating color in example 2 and used to form control coated paper according to the same technique as in example 2 the results are shown in table 3 table 3__________________________________________________________________________ example 5 control 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5__________________________________________________________________________proportion of adhesivesstarch 75 50 35 25 15 75 50 35 25 15latex 25 50 65 75 85 25.