To provide an image recording method easy to inspect the flaw of an image before performing printing because an exposed image is large in contrast and capable of smoothly performing the reading due to a plate scanner for obtaining the control data of the ink supply quantity of a printing press, and a planographic printing plate.

In the planographic printing plate wherein a recording layer based on hot-melt particles and a porous layer having voids are provided on a support, the hot-melt particles are melted under heating to fill the voids of the porous layer to record a transparency/opacity contrast image.