That variety is exactly what Louisiana set out to master. Working with Solimar Systems, the state built its statewide print operation on the Solimar Chemistry® Platform — an integrated production environment where data transformation, optimisation, tracking, and re-engineering work as one system rather than a set of disconnected tools. The platform is flexible enough to provide each agency with a workflow tailored to its rules and standardised enough that the team can run it all without reinventing the wheel each morning. The payoff is leverage: a small team with the capacity to serve an entire state’s worth of agencies, and the room to keep saying yes to what comes next.
“Solimar Systems is the single most important platform in our entire stack, and the relationship lives up to that. When we run into something difficult, the support team is there. Being part of the Customer Advisory Council means we help shape where the platform goes next. That is why we are not just staying with Solimar Systems. We are building on it.”
Predictable Files, Predictable Output
Underneath every agency workflow sits ReadyPDF, doing the steady work that keeps the rest of the shop calm. Every job is preflighted and converted for the state’s cut-sheet devices, so files reach the floor already known to be good. Output stays consistent across a fleet built around production cut-sheet printers, including a MICR printer dedicated to secure cheque production. The team is now evaluating JDF to further trim conversion steps. That foundation is what makes everything above it possible.
Certified Mail, Automated End-to-End
If you want to see the payoff, look at certified mail. Certified pieces for the Louisiana Department of Revenue, including tax verification notices, carry legal weight. Every piece needs a cover sheet, a tracking barcode, and defensible proof that it entered the mailstream — precisely the kind of exacting, repeatable work that rewards automation.
Today the state runs that process as an automated pipeline. The Solimar Systems workflow produces a data file that lands in a hot folder, where EasySend Automate from partner Digitalized Software picks it up without anyone touching a keyboard. EasySend generates banner sheets carrying Intelligent Mail package barcodes, builds the USPS Form 3877 Firm Mailing Book, and produces the electronic acceptance file. Those outputs flow back into the Solimar Systems workflow, are merged with the recipient communications, and are released to print as a single, coherent job. “The whole point of EasySend Automate is that certified mail should run without anyone babysitting it. Dropping it into the Solimar Systems workflow is where that really pays off,” says Mike Bogad, VP Business Development & Partnerships, Digitalized Software. “The data comes in, the compliance pieces get built, and it all flows back as one job. For an operation serving an entire state, that kind of hands-off reliability is exactly what you want.”
“Solimar Systems is the single most important platform in our entire stack, and the relationship lives up to that. That is why we are not just staying with Solimar Systems — we are building on it.”
Ethan Gremillion
IT Statewide Director 3, Enterprise Print & Mail, State of Louisiana
