NP printing the Word

[Doug Millison]

Given the theorizing re social construction of literary works, it 
seems some scholars now believe that's how the printing press itself 
developed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/27/arts/27PRIN.html
IDEAS
Has History Been Too Generous to Gutenberg?
By DINITIA SMITH

[...]

"They have figured out that the whole history of early printing is 
wrong," said Anthony Grafton, a professor of history at Princeton and 
an expert on the history of the book. "There wasn't one, heroic 
discovery."  Rather, Mr. Grafton said, the invention of modern 
printing was a more gradual process involving more than one person.