Traditionally the sub-solidus synthesis method of mixing dry raw materials followed by repeated cycles of hand grinding and calcination has played a central role in the discovery of new materials by solid state chemists because of its versatility in terms of accessible chemistry and applicable reaction conditions. The method is labour intensive and only processes one formulation at a time. In the ceramic industry development often uses a small-scale version of the industrial process, usually wet milling followed by drying, granulation, compaction to a desired shape followed by high temperature sintering. As the pace of technological change increases and the need for higher-performance solid-state materials for batteries, solar cells, and catalysts becomes ever more urgent, these tried and tested methods are no longer adequate to explore the large chemical and reaction parameter space. The increasing number of elements involved in materials used as dielectrics, piezoelectrics and in other functional materials serves to exacerbate the problem as the compositional space to be explored grows exponentially. The use of high throughput parallel processing and testing in the pharmaceutical industry is well established, and has extended to other areas where liquid formulations are required such as personal care and cleaning products. It has generated a range of automated liquid handling techniques from laboratory bench to industrial scale. However, the development of high throughput methods for solid materials is more limited and has tended to focus on thin film deposition technologies. Libraries of materials have also been produced as spots on substrates and by ink-jet printing but the amounts of material produced are very small (mg scale) and the applicability is limited by problems of reaction with the substrate during calcination and of the substrate appearing in the subsequent X ray diffraction analysis. Solgel based methods, when this synthesis chemistry is appropriate for the system under study, are ideally suited to the high-throughput liquid dispensing robots developed for the pharmaceutical industry and have been applied to the discovery of new battery electrolyte materials, metal halide perovskites and work has been done to introduce solid handling into a high-throughput ceramic workflow. Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis has also been used to prepare libraries of powdered oxides for oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts, producing individual sample sizes of ~3 g. Traditional solid state synthesis is challenging to achieve in a high throughput workflow, as the parallelisation of mixing, grinding and pressing many 10's of solid samples demands bespoke solutions or multiple milling tools with avoidance of media contamination. Alternative workflows that are complementary in terms of accessible chemistries, reaction conditions and sample form factor to those already established will expand the range of investigations that can be accelerated through automation. In this work we have combined elements of ceramic processing with automated liquid handling and other process steps from pharmaceuticals to develop a high-throughput route for solid materials development which delivers larger quantities of material (typically 100 -250 mg) in free-standing samples suitable for a range of subsequent measurements. Initially the route has been used to generate a range of oxide materials as part of a programme to screen ternary and higher compositions for previously unknown multicomponent phases by X-ray diffraction.