Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Acquisitions (Details)

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Acquisitions (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended 6 Months Ended 0 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Jul. 29, 2014
Indefinite-lived intangible assets [Abstract]          
Sales $ 349,394,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaRevenue $ 348,723,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaRevenue $ 692,978,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaRevenue $ 692,948,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaRevenue  
Income before income taxes 13,805,000matw_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaIncomeBeforeIncomeTaxes 18,178,000matw_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaIncomeBeforeIncomeTaxes 33,893,000matw_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaIncomeBeforeIncomeTaxes 34,846,000matw_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaIncomeBeforeIncomeTaxes  
Net income 9,576,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaNetIncomeLoss 13,444,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaNetIncomeLoss 24,527,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaNetIncomeLoss 23,750,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionsProFormaNetIncomeLoss  
Earnings per share $ 0.29us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaEarningsPerShareBasic $ 0.41us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaEarningsPerShareBasic $ 0.74us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionProFormaEarningsPerShareBasic $ 0.72us-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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= matw_SchawkIncMember
Implied price of entity's common stock (in dollars per share)         $ 20.74us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionSharePrice
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= matw_SchawkIncMember
Total enterprise value         $ 616,686,000,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferred1
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Number of service deliverable locations         155matw_NumberOfServiceDeliverableLocations
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= matw_SchawkIncMember
Number of service deliverable countries         20matw_NumberOfServiceDeliverableCountries
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= matw_SchawkIncMember