While composition tools excel at creating customer-ready content, they’re designed for a different purpose than production optimization. The downstream needs of bindery, finishing, inserter control, and compliance require specialized handling—and this is where many print and mail operations can unlock significant efficiency gains and postal savings.

Rubika fills that space perfectly.

As part of the Solimar post-composition platform, Rubika is a rules-driven engine that reshapes, remaps, and reinforces your documents before they hit production. It’s not another composition system—it’s what makes composed documents production-ready.

Rubika ingests output from your composition engine (PDF, AFP, PostScript) and applies logic to:

• Reorder pages for finishing requirements (e.g., reverse collate for inline booklet makers)
• Group pieces for householding to reduce postage
• Split jobs for multi-site or multi-SLA handling
• Insert control barcodes for inserters or bindery equipment
• Add tray breaks and postal batching markers
• Apply overlays, page numbers, or disclaimers
• Redact PHI or sensitive data for HIPAA or GDPR workflows

None of this touches your upstream composition. Rubika lets you centralize, reuse, and audit production logic—all in a format operations teams can manage without rewriting the entire job.

A common Rubika deployment involves householding—combining multiple documents for the same recipient into one envelope. In a transactional environment (like statements or notices), this reduces postage while complying with regulatory constraints.

Example:

• Input: 3 separate PDFs for the same household
• Output: 1 combined PDF, ordered by document type, with updated page numbering, barcoding, and a tray break after the combined set

Rubika handles this in one profile—no manual merge, no composition rework, and no disruption to your MIS or postal prep software.

Building on householding capabilities, Rubika also excels at inserter preparation. Manual generation of control files for inserters is error-prone and inconsistent. Rubika reads each piece, extracts metadata (such as page count or client code), and writes fully formed control files (e.g., BlueCrest, Pitney Bowes, Bell and Howell).

Whether you’re batching by client, SLA, or location, Rubika ensures that every job arrives at the inserter with barcodes, sequence IDs, and tray logic fully integrated.

Where custom scripts once served these needs, Rubika brings enterprise-grade reliability and visual control to production optimization.

Many shops begin by using scripts to handle document splitting, merging, or barcode insertion. Over time, these scripts accumulate, becoming increasingly difficult to document and modify, and are often tied to a single developer. Rubika transforms this approach with visual profiles:

• Logic-driven operations (e.g., “Insert barcode if page contains ‘Policy #:'”)
• GUI-based control—no need to parse XML or modify code
• Reusable templates for repeatable jobs
• Logging, reporting, and audit trails for every transformation

This means:

• Easier onboarding of new operators
• Faster response to new client specs
• Fewer job reruns or inserter jams due to bad metadata

Rubika doesn’t just prepare files for production—it also strengthens compliance. In regulated environments, Rubika can redact PHI, enforce document versioning, or inject data required for audit.

• Need to mask account numbers for a specific audience?
• Need to apply version identifiers to meet a legal hold?
• Need to insert disclaimers based on content logic?

Rubika handles it—all without touching the source document or requiring changes upstream.

What our clients measure:
Hansen360 clients leveraging Rubika typically report:

• 30–50% reduction in manual QC at the inserter
• Fewer reruns from misordered or incomplete sets
• Increased postal savings from consistent householding and batching
• Stronger audit readiness through piece-level traceability

More importantly, Rubika becomes a reusable layer. The more you scale, the greater the benefits.

If you’re wondering where Rubika fits, ask your production team these common readiness indicators:

• Are we still using spreadsheets for barcode preparation?
• Do we manually merge PDFs when SLAs conflict?
• Are we skipping householding because the logic is too complex?

These are prime Rubika use cases—and solving even one of them justifies the implementation.

Rubika isn’t a backup for composition—it’s the optimization layer production has needed all along. It automates what can’t (and shouldn’t) be handled upstream, giving you control, compliance, and repeatability where it matters most: on the shop floor.

At Hansen360, we build Rubika profiles tailored to your workflows, equipment, and client needs. Whether you’re running statements, compliance letters, or any document with SLAs and finishing rules, Rubika can take you from composition-ready to production-exceptional.

Let’s take one of your existing jobs and walk through what Rubika could do. You’ll see the difference quickly.