A printing method comprising: imagewise exposing a lithographic printing
plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer being
removable with a fountain solution or a combination of a printing ink and
a fountain solution and loading the exposed lithographic printing plate
precursor on a plate cylinder of a printing press, or loading the
lithographic printing plate precursor on a plate cylinder of a printing
press and imagewise exposing the loaded lithographic printing plate
precursor, supplying at least a fountain solution comprising a compound
represented by the formula (I) defined herein to the exposed lithographic
printing plate precursor so as to remove an unexposed area of the image
recording layer; and performing printing.