Subsequent Events	9 Months Ended
Nov. 30, 2012
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events	17. Subsequent Events On December 10, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Company declared an accelerated third and fourth quarter cash dividend for this fiscal year totaling $.35 per share of outstanding common stock. This accelerated dividend was intended by the Board to be in lieu of quarterly dividends Ennis planned to announce with its quarterly earnings results for the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2013, and that otherwise would have been paid in calendar year 2013. This accelerated dividend was paid on December 28, 2012 to shareholders of record on December 20, 2012. The Board believed that with future fiscal and federal tax rate uncertainty at that time, it would be in the best interest of the Company’s shareholders to accelerate the dividend payment for the last two quarters of the current fiscal year.

Subsequent Events

9 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2012

17. Subsequent Events

On December 10, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Company declared an accelerated third and fourth quarter cash dividend for this fiscal year totaling $.35 per share of outstanding common stock. This accelerated dividend was intended by the Board to be in lieu of quarterly dividends Ennis planned to announce with its quarterly earnings results for the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2013, and that otherwise would have been paid in calendar year 2013. This accelerated dividend was paid on December 28, 2012 to shareholders of record on December 20, 2012.

The Board believed that with future fiscal and federal tax rate uncertainty at that time, it would be in the best interest of the Company’s shareholders to accelerate the dividend payment for the last two quarters of the current fiscal year.