Lithographic printing plate precursor, lithographic printing plate manufacturing method and printing method

A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising an aluminum support and an image recording layer,

• wherein the aluminum support includes an aluminum plate and an anodized film of aluminum formed on the aluminum plate,
• wherein the anodized film is positioned closer to the image recording layer than the aluminum plate is,
• wherein the anodized film has micropores extending in a depth direction of the anodized film from a surface of the anodized film on the image recording layer side,
• wherein the micropores have an average diameter of more than 10 nm but not more than 100 nm at the surface of the anodized film,
• wherein the surface of the anodized film on the image recording layer side has a lightness L* of 79 to 100 in a L*a*b* color system,
• wherein each of the micropores has a large-diameter portion which extends from the surface of the anodized film to a depth of 10 to 1000 nm and a small-diameter portion which communicates with a bottom of the large-diameter portion and extends to a depth of 20 to 2,000 nm from a communication position between the small-diameter portion and the large-diameter portion,
• wherein an aperture average diameter of the large-diameter portion at the surface of the anodized film is 15 to 100 nm, and
• wherein an aperture average diameter of the small-diameter portion at the communication position is not more than 13 nm.