Lithographic printing plate precursor and use

A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor comprising:

• a substrate comprising a hydrophilic surface and two opposing edges having edge surfaces;
• a negative-working radiation-sensitive imagable layer that is disposed on the hydrophilic surface of the substrate, the negative-working radiation-sensitive imagable layer comprising:
• one or more free radically polymerizable components,
• an initiator composition that provides free radicals upon exposure of the radiation-sensitive imagable layer to radiation,
• one or more radiation absorbers, and
• optionally, a polymeric binder different from the one or more free radically polymerizable components;
• wherein the negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor has al shear droop at each of the two opposing edges, which shear droop has a shear droop depth Y of at least 20 μm and up to and including 200 μm, and a shear droop width X of at least 500 μm and up to and including 2000 μm, and
• wherein the negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor further comprises a band of a hydrophilic coating disposed over the negative-working radiation-sensitive imagable layer and any protective layer disposed thereon, which hydrophilic coating band extends from each of the two opposing edges inwardly along the hydrophilic surface independently for hydrophilic coating band width A to be at least 1.5 times the shear droop width X, wherein the hydrophilic coating band comprises one or more amphoteric surfactants in a total amount of at least 5 weight % and up to and including 90 weight %, based on the total dry weight of the hydrophilic coating band, which total amount of the one or more amphoteric surfactants is greater than the total of all cationic, anionic, and nonionic surfactants in the hydrophilic coating band,
• and the negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor optionally comprises a protective layer disposed over the negative-working radiation-sensitive imagable layer.