Planographic printing plate

摘要

The present invention provides a thermal type planographic printing plate which is writable by infrared laser beam exposure, can record images with high sensitivity and can provide a high quality printed matter which does not have stains. The planographic printing plate comprises a recording layer which is writable by infrared-laser exposure on a support formed with an anodic oxidation coating having a predetermined density and/or vacancy ratio on a roughened surface of an aluminum substrate.