To provide a printing plate material free from register shift and non-uniformity in the printing image and having no deterioration in initial ink deposition property due to insufficient exposure, in printing in color even if the plate material is subjected to exposure with an image forming device having a large exposure drum, and also to provide an image recording method using the printing material, a method for producing a printing plate, and a printing method using the printing plate.

In the printing plate material having an image forming function layer on a plastic support, in which the image recording device having the exposure drum of 250 mm or more in diameter is used to form an image by being irradiated with a laser beam on the exposure drum, the printing plate material has a winding habit curl of 0 mm to 90 mm.