To provide a coating and production method of a lithographic-printing plate original edition which can supply a coating surface, which has no coating defect, is uniform in surface shape, stable and good in coating property, to a long supporting strip using a pick-up roll coating apparatus, and also is good in performance, and to provide a printing method using the lithographic-printing plate original edition.

The coating method of the lithographic-printing plate original edition picks up a coating liquid by a pick-up roll to transcribe and apply it on the support, wherein the coating liquid has metal particles having magnetic properties and the surface material of the pick-up roll is nonmagenetic.