To obtain a pigment-coated paper causing little transfer of printed ink from printed part to white paper contacting with each other during printing or in a bookbinding process after printing.

This pigment-coated paper is produced by coating a base paper with a coating composition composed mainly of a pigment and an adhesive and drying the coated layer. The coating composition contains (A) ≥65 pts.wt. (based on 100 pts.wt. of total pigment) of limestone powder and/or precipitated calcium carbonate having an average particle diameter of ≤3 μm, (B) 5-30 pts.wt. of an adhesive composition and (C) 0.2-3 pts.wt. of at least one kind of wax component having an average particle diameter of 6-30 μm and selected from polyethylene wax, polypropylene wax, ethylene-propylene copolymer wax and their modified products.