Lithographic printing plate precursor

Abstract

A lithographic printing plate precursor includes in the following order: a support; an image-recording layer containing (A) an infrared absorbing agent, (B) a polymerization initiator and (C) a polymerizable compound; and a protective layer, an unexposed area of the image-recording layer is capable of being removed with at least one of printing ink and dampening water on a printing machine, and the lithographic printing plate precursor contains a compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 represents an alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group having from 6 to 36 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, R2 and R3 each independently represents a methyl group, an ethyl group, a hydroxyethyl group or a hydroxypropyl group, L represents a single bond or a divalent connecting group, and n represents an integer of from 0 to 11.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.