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"There's nothing in canon that suggests the printing press even exists outside of that one off mention. Books are probably made they way they were before Gutenberg.... individually by hand. That was one of the major occupations of monasteries back then. It also means that only the well to do have access to any significant number."
Actually due to the high literacy rate everyone with 3 int is literate even commoners indicate the printing press would have had to have been invented about 80 years before 4667 AR. In order for broadsheets in Galt's revolution to be effective the literacy rate would need to be high.
The real word example of the first time the printing press has an effect on politics is the protestant reformation. The reformation started in 1517, and the printing press was invented in about 1440 hence it took about 80 years for literacy rates to rise to the point that the printed word could topple persons in power.
