The opacity of the pigmented polymer just behind the photographic layer, yields a print of excellent optical quality.

The invention is concerning the use of metallic silver in the exposed, developed, and fixated silver-halogenide photographic layer fixed on the solid support, for the production of printing plate.

This is followed by developing the photographic layer to thereby remove the nominage areas thereof and leaving the image areas thereof in the form of a pattern on the substrate.

This results in a spatially defined photocopy of the individual colour negatives through the transparent make-up sheet on the photographic layer (29) of the screen (28).