Segment Information and Geographic Information - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Feb. 29, 2016 Segment Bank ManufacturingSites
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments \| Segment	2
Number of banks that are customer of segment \| Bank	25
Print Segment [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of manufacturing units throughout United States	57
Number of manufacturing units operated in strategically located domestic state	21
Percentage of reportable segment portion of business product considered as custom and semi-custom	96.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Product Concentration Risk [Member] \| Print Segment [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of reportable segment net sales portion in net sales	68.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Product Concentration Risk [Member] \| Apparel Segment [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of reportable segment net sales portion in net sales	32.00%

Number of bank that are customer of segment.

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Number of manufacturing units throughout United States.

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Number of manufacturing unit operated by reportable segment in domestic state.

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Percentage of reportable segment portion of business product considered as custom and semi custom.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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