Pictures and words

As editor of the FT I suppose you’d expect Lionel Barber to use his speech at the Printing Charity’s annual lunch to say: ‘Long live the printed word’ in this increasingly digital age. But what about printed images? To my mind, the ‘printing industry’ focuses too much on text in relation to print’s role in communication. Here in wide-format world we know very well the power of printed graphics. Thinking we should be making more noise about that. Agreed?