Disclosed is a heat-sensitive sheet for stencil printing comprising a laminate of a thermoplastic resin film and a porous support mainly composed of synthetic fibers, the sheet having a wet tensile strength in the machine direction of 200 gf/cm or higher, a KES bending rigidity B value in the machine or cross direction of 0.02 g·cm2/cm or higher, and a PPS smoothness determined when a film is pressed against the surface of the porous support of the sheet of 0.9 &mgr;m or higher; the sheet has an excellent runnability, occurrence of wrinkles on the sheet when it is wound around a drum of a stencil printing machine is efficiently prevented, and elongation of the sheet is repressed and occurrence of wrinkles on the sheet can be prevented even when a large number of paper sheets are printed, and thus printed paper sheets having sharp images excellent in reproducibility of a manuscript can be provided.