Percentage of carrying value over fair value of goodwill for two step goodwill impairment test.

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The aggregate expense charged against earnings to allocate the cost of intangible assets (nonphysical assets not used in production) in a systematic and rational manner to the periods expected to benefit from such assets. As a noncash expense, this element is added back to net income when calculating cash provided by or used in operations using the indirect method.

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount of increase in asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized resulting from a business combination.

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Amount of loss from the write-down of an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Nov. 30, 2014	Nov. 30, 2013	Nov. 30, 2014	Nov. 30, 2013	Feb. 28, 2014
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Goodwill impairment			$ (55,923)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss		$ (18,626)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss
Estimated useful life of asset			9 years 8 months 12 days		7 years 1 month 6 days
Amortization of trade names, customer lists, and patent	1,413us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets	1,225us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets	4,249us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets	2,815us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets
Goodwill acquired			957us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod		12,024us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod
Wisco and NIC [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Goodwill acquired			12		12,000
Alstyle Apparel [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Goodwill impairment			(55,900)		(18,600)
Sovereign Business Forms [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Goodwill acquired			945
Apparel Segment [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Goodwill impairment			(55,923)		(18,626)
Percentage of carrying value of goodwill and impairment			88.00%
Print Segment [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Goodwill impairment			0
Goodwill acquired			$ 957		$ 12,024
Minimum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated useful life of asset			1 year
Maximum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated useful life of asset			15 years