METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium, which can reduce the running cost without enlarging the apparatus, can suppress the effect of the orientation irregularities described below and can perform the effective orientation when the magnetic material contained in a magnetic applied film is obliquely oriented with respect to the surface of a supporting body. SOLUTION: Magnetic-material dispersing liquid is applied adequately on a continuously running non-magnetic supporting body 2 with an applying head 4, and a magnetic layer 3 is formed. A magnetic recording medium 9, wherein the above described magnetic layer 3 is formed, is moved between heteropolar facing magnets 5 and 6, which are a pair of the permanent magnets wherein the respective central axes are arranged in an offset pattern along the running direction of the above described supporting body 2, under the state wherein the magnetic layer 3 is not dried. Then, the layer is dried. The above described magnet 5, which is arranged on the upper side of the above described supporting body 2, is offset by a distance (t) and arranged on the upstream side from the central axis of the above described magnet 6, whose control axis is arranged on the lower surface side.