Light-sensitive printing plate with matt overlayer

A light-sensitive printing plate comprising

• (a) a support,
• (b) a light-sensitive layer on said support (a), said light-sensitive layer being present in a coating amount of 0.2 to 7 g/m.sup.2 and comprising
• (i) a negative-working composition containing a diazo resin, an azide light-sensitive material, a light-sensitive resin having an unsaturated double bond in the molecule which undergoes a dimerization reaction upon irradiation with active rays thereby becoming insoluble, or ethylene-based unsaturated compounds which have at least two unsaturated double bonds and undergo a polymerization reaction upon irradiation with active rays;
• or
• (ii) a positive-working composition containing an o-diazooxide-based light-sensitive material, a phosphotungstic acid salt of a diazo resin, a hexacyanoferrate salt of a diazo resin, a diazo resin and a polyvinyl hydrogen-phthalate, or a light-sensitive composition containing linear polyamides and monomers containing an addition polymerizable unsaturated bond;
• (c) a layer of an oleophilic, hydrophobic, water-insoluble and solvent-softenable resin on the light-sensitive layer (b), and
• (d) a matt layer comprising a resin layer with particles of a matt agent dispersed therein on said layer (c), said matt layer being removable in both the exposed and unexposed areas upon development, having a surface coarseness Ha ranging from about 0.4 to 4 microns, and containing particles of said matt agent having a particle size of about 2 to 40 microns.