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Business acquisition contingent consideration period.

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Business acquisition purchase price amount held in escrow account recovered.

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Business acquisition purchase price amount held in escrow to secure indemnification obligations.

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Business combination, contingent consideration arrangements, establishment of consideration due to acquisition transaction.

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Fair value assumptions earnings projections.

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Fair value measurements significant assumption.

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Internal Rate Of Return Percentage

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Percentage of revenue on existing technology.

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Probability of success.

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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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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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This element represents the amount of any change recognized during the period in the high-end of the estimated range of outcomes (undiscounted) of a liability assumed in a business combination arising from an item of contingent consideration.

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Value of input used to measure contingent consideration liability from business combination.

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Acquisition - Trojan Label - Additional Information (Detail)			12 Months Ended
	Feb. 01, 2017 USD ($)	Feb. 01, 2017 DKK (kr)	Jan. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Feb. 01, 2017 DKK (kr)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill			$ 12,329,000	$ 13,004,000
Contingent Earn Out Liability [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Estimated earnout targets	$ 1,400,000
Estimated earnout targets	500,000
TrojanLabel ApS [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price of acquisition	9,100,000	kr 62,900,000
Purchase price of acquisition amount held in escrow	900,000					kr 6,400,000
Cash acquired from acquisition	100,000	kr 976,000
Purchase price of acquisition amount held in escrow account recovered	$ 145,000					kr 891,000
Additional contingent consideration period	7 years	7 years
Additional income generated from reduction in contingent consideration				1,400,000
General and administrative expense				700,000
Goodwill	$ 7,388,000
TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| General and Administrative Expense [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
General and administrative expense				$ 100,000	$ 600,000
TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Earn-Out Payments, if 80% of Specified Earnings Targets are Achieved [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Minimum percentage required to entitle additional contingent consideration	80.00%	80.00%
TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Contingent Earn Out Liability [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Fair value key assumptions			Key assumptions in estimating the fair value of the contingent consideration liability (earnout) include (1) the estimated earnout targets over the next seven years of $407,000-$1,280,000, (2) the probability of success (achievement of the various contingent events) from 1.6%-87.2% and (3) a risk-adjusted discount rate of approximately 1.77%-3.35% used to adjust the probability-weighted earnout payments to their present value.
Estimated earnout targets	$ 1,280,000
Estimated earnout targets	$ 407,000
TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Intangible Assets [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Internal rate of return	19.00%					19.00%
Fair value key assumptions			Key assumptions in estimating the fair value of the intangibles include (1) remaining life of existing technology acquired based on estimate of percentage of revenue from 0% - 100% for each product, (2) the Company's internal rate of return of 19.0% and (3) a range of earnings projections from $121,000 - $1,070,000.
Minimum [Member] \| Contingent Earn Out Liability [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Probability of success	0.00%	0.00%
Minimum [Member] \| TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Contingent Earn Out Liability [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Fair value assumptions	0.0177					0.0177
Probability of success	1.60%	1.60%
Minimum [Member] \| TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Intangible Assets [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue on existing technology	0.00%	0.00%
Fair value assumptions, Annual earnings projections	$ 121,000
Maximum [Member] \| Contingent Earn Out Liability [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Probability of success	0.90%	0.90%
Maximum [Member] \| TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Contingent Earn Out Liability [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Fair value assumptions	0.0335					0.0335
Probability of success	87.20%	87.20%
Maximum [Member] \| TrojanLabel ApS [Member] \| Intangible Assets [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue on existing technology	100.00%	100.00%
Fair value assumptions, Annual earnings projections	$ 1,070,000