Patent ID: 7829182

Claim:
A coated paper for offset printing which is hot-air dried or calendered and comprises a base paper and a coating layer comprising pigment and adhesive formed on the base paper, wherein a surface layer comprising a thermoplastic polymer constituted by thermoplastic polymer particles having a glass-transition temperature of 80° C. or above and an average particle size of 100 nm or less, and a surface sizing agent is formed on the coating layer, said coating layer and said surface layer being formed on the base paper in this order, the thermoplastic polymer particles and surface sizing agent account for 80 to 100 weight-percent of the overall surface layer in solid content, the surface sizing agent is at least one copolymer selected from the group consisting of a copolymer of styrene-acrylic, a copolymer of olefins, and a copolymer of styrene-maleic acid, the thermoplastic polymer particles remain as particles after hot-air drying or calendering, whereas the surface sizing agent is of a solution or emulsion type and does not remain as particles after hot-air drying or calendering, wherein in the surface layer, voids formed by the thermoplastic polymer particles are filled or covered by the surface sizing agent, the weight of the surface layer is 0.1 to 3.0 g/m 2 , and the surface layer contains 3 to 100 weight-parts of the surface sizing agent for 100 weight-parts of the thermoplastic polymer particles.