A coated paper is white and glossy enough to give satisfaction as a printing paper, exhibits a good printability in offset sheet-fed printing and a high printing gloss, and does not degrade the print efficiency. The coated paper is characterized by having two or more coating layers composed mainly of a pigment and an adhesive on at least one side of a base paper. When ink is transferred onto the paper, the ink settability is relatively low in the early stage of the drying process and relatively high in the final stage.