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>I always assumed that printing was cheap despite their technological limitations
Nah, it's absolutely an extremely labor-intensive and expensive process.
Some flyers might be manageable (not for Reimu), but preparing the wood blocks takes a huge amount of work and printing anything large would be out of reach for ordinary people.

As for the youkai tech, it's honestly kind of a mess with this chapter. You'd think the Tengu would have advanced printing technology based on their newspapers and access to computers (or computer-like devices, at least), but those would clearly need to be built and maintained by the kappa. But if the kappa have this tech, Nitori wouldn't have had to farm out the work to Suzunaan, especially since the actual hardest part, preparing the wood blocks, was already done by the kappa.
It's probably just ZUN not thinking about his own worldbuilding again.
Still, it's probably accurate to what the human villagers have available. They can print, but it's slow and inefficient, and they have a limited capacity for it, so it's only really an option for rich youkai stooges.

Also, the reason why the tengu sheltered Kosuzu were because they were already in the area to dampen the storm; they're not a bunch of hired hands that can be called upon to track down any random dumbass. The villagers can safely be assumed to handle such typical situations themselves, except they don't have all the modern technology that makes it easier to organize like we do.

And Eientei is located in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, anon. It's not accessible at all. Only a lunatic would go there without a guide, so that means that they'd need to find Mokou, Reisen, or some other weirdo who is both amiable to humans and intimately familiar with the forest if they need to request Eirin to make a house call (which is something she does on occasion). It isn't easy in the slightest.