To provide a printing plate material having sufficient exposure visible image properties, while having sufficient printing start properties and printing durability as a general-purpose processless plate.

In the printing plate material having on a base one or more image forming layers recordable by an infrared laser, one of the image forming layers is a layer A containing a low-melting metal or alloy of which the melting point is in the range of 50-230°C, and one of the image forming layers is a layer B of which the laser exposure part turns into an image part of inking properties.