Lithographic printing method

摘要

A printing method comprising: imagewise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer being removable with a fountain solution or a combination of a printing ink and a fountain solution and loading the exposed lithographic printing plate precursor on a plate cylinder of a printing press, or loading the lithographic printing plate precursor on a plate cylinder of a printing press and imagewise exposing the loaded lithographic printing plate precursor; supplying at least a fountain solution comprising a compound represented by the formula (I) defined herein to the exposed lithographic printing plate precursor so as to remove an unexposed area of the image recording layer; and performing printing.