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Acquisitions (Details)

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Acquisitions (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended 0 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Jul. 29, 2014
Indefinite-lived intangible assets [Abstract]      
Sales $ 343,584,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaRevenue $ 344,225,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaRevenue  
Income before income taxes 20,088,000matw_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaIncomeBeforeIncomeTaxes 16,668,000matw_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaIncomeBeforeIncomeTaxes  
Net income 14,836,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaNetIncomeLoss 10,306,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaNetIncomeLoss  
Earnings per share $ 0.45us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaEarningsPerShareBasic $ 0.31us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaEarningsPerShareBasic  
Schawk, Inc. [Member]      
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Purchase price payable for each SGK share in cash (in dollars per share)     $ 11.80matw_PurchasePricePayableForEachSgkShareInCash
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Purchase price payable for each SGK share in common stock (in shares)     0.20582us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionEquityInterestsIssuedOrIssuableNumberOfSharesIssued
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Implied price of entity's common stock (in dollars per share)     $ 20.74us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionSharePrice
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Total enterprise value     $ 616,686,000,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferred1
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Number of service deliverable locations     155matw_NumberOfServiceDeliverableLocations
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Number of service deliverable countries     20matw_NumberOfServiceDeliverableCountries
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