Process for preparing a planographic printing plate

摘要

In a process for preparing a planographic printing plate which comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon a tanning-developable silver halide photosensitive layer; tanning developing the exposed photosensitive material and washing out the untanned areas of the photosensitive layer; the improvement comprising the silver halide photosensitive layer further contains finely divided particles of an oleophilic synthetic resin in which the particles are substantially insoluble in water, are non-permeable to an alkaline solution and are not dissolved during the tanning development.