Jeffries Printing Services is a small commercial print company in Sydney, Australia.

We offer the full range of commercial printing, from single colour small press work to full colour printing. With in house mailing facilities and one of the biggest digital print rooms in Sydney we can provide the full range of services demanded by the modern print buyer.

Since 2008, Jeffries Printing has operated Black House Comics, publishing and printing many comic and genre books. Our lead title, The Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes is sold throughout Australian newsagents and online at www.blackboox.net. Along with the Phantom, one of only two Australian produced comics books with such wide distribution, DD was recently named one of the best titles of 2009.

In 2010 Jeffries Printing launched www.blackboox.net, Australia's premier site for the sale and distribution of Australian comics and genre books.

History

Little is known of the early history of the company. No one knows exactly who the original Mr. Jeffries was.

Purchased by Paul Kirgan in 1978, the original premises was a shop front on Connell's Point Road, South Hurstville. The previous owner had owned the company for ten years and had not bought it from anyone called Jeffries and did not know who the original Jeffries was.

The only clue to the true age of the company came from newspapers dated from 1942 and planted underneath machinery in the Hurstville shop.

When Paul Kirgan bought the company, the machinery consisted of a Thompson platen and a faulty, obscure offset press. A letterpressman by trade, Paul bought an offset Heidelberg GTO 46 and never looked back.

In 1992 Jeffries moved from Hurstville to 19/94 Bryant Street, Padstow to accomodate more presses, including a Heidelberg SORKZ.

With many longstanding customers, Jeffries specialised in carbonless books and general office stationery.

Paul decided to retire with the introduction of the GST in 2000. His son Baden Kirgan took the reins and remains managing director to this day.

Moving to larger premises again at 5/71a Milperra Road, Revesby in 2005, the company's specialisation in carbonless and jobbing work was dying.

With the introduction of the first digital press to the company, the modest Xerox 5065, the company took off into a new field, offering digital and mailing services to its growing list of corporate and government clients to great success.

Today Jeffries Printing is a superb example of the nimble footed small printer. With niche markets in publishing, mailing and electoral communications, overheads are low, prices competitive and service exemplary. If we do say so ourselves.