Keeping in view, the personalized print advantages and short run requirements of the print customers, dry electro-photographic (DEP) printing has become a popular printing method in the recent time in the printing industry. Paper industry is continuously improving itself to serve ever-changing printing requirements for fulfilling various printability and runnability related factors. One of the ways to improve the printability of paper is to apply a suitable coating layer onto the surface of uncoated paper for improve its surface characteristics so as to enhance level of the final print quality. This paper focuses on analysing the ink density related issues in DEP presses on various uncoated and coated paper stocks in relation to surface characteristics of these printing papers.