Laser ablative recording material

A laser ablative recording material having on a support a coloring agent layer containing a fluorine-containing surfactant and an overcoat layer formed over the coloring agent layer;

• the coloring agent layer having dispersed therein inorganic fine particles as a coloring agent;
• the fluorine-containing surfactant being contained in the coloring agent layer in an amount of 0.05 to 3% by weight of the amount of the coloring agent;
• and
• the fluorine-containing surfactant being a copolymer made of:
• (Condition I) either or both of an acrylate having a fluoroaliphatic group and a methacrylate having a fluoroaliphatic group wherein the aliphatic group includes 3 to 20 carbon atoms and fluorine atoms of 40% or more by weight;
• and wherein half or above of atoms bonded to three carbon atoms constituting terminal portions are fluorine atoms;
• and
• (Condition II) either or both of a poly(oxyalkylene) acrylate and a poly(oxyalkylene) methacrylate;
• wherein monomer units according to Condition I constitute 20 to 80 percent by weight of the copolymer.