| abstract |
An infrared-sensitive image forming material with which a plate can bendirectly formed by an infrared laser. The infrared-sensitive image formingnmaterial has a support having disposed thereon a recording layer whosensolubility in an aqueous alkaline solution is altered by irradiation with anninfrared laser. The recording layer has a binder phase formed of a polymerncompound, a dispersion phase that is dispersed in the binder phase, and anninfrared absorbent present in either one of the binder phase and the dispersionnphase. Within a total incorporated amount of the infrared absorbent in thenrecording layer, a mass present in the dispersion binder is greater than a massnpresent in the binder phase. Namely, within the recording layer, the infrarednabsorbent is localized in the dispersion phase. |