Disclosed is a presensitized plate composed of a support having thereon an
image recording layer which includes: an infrared absorber (A) that is
a cyanine dye having at least one fused ring composed of a
nitrogen-containing heterocycle in combination with an aromatic ring or a
second heterocycle, and having on the aromatic ring or second heterocycle
an electron-withdrawing group or a heavy atom-containing group, a radical
generator (B), and a radical-polymerizable compound (C), and which is
removable with printing ink and/or dampening water. The presensitized of
the present invention can be imaged with an infrared light-emitting laser
to directly record an image from digital data on a computer or the like
and is then subjected to on-machine development without carrying out a
development step, which is capable of providing a large number of good
impressions with a practical amount of energy.