Originally Posted by CrazyOne
When it's run as 4-color process, as most everything mentioned above is (my example is), it hardly matters what the paper color is. Want black background? Just design it. Full bleed shouldn't be a problem. The online card designer systems have hundreds of color backgrounds to use.
IMHO a black background on one side of a white piece of paper looks cheap. I was actually looking for something that was cream colored. You certainly can't beat the prices, though!
Raised printing (thermography) should already be pretty easy to find for cheap even locally, long as you don't want custom colors. It's true traditional printing that's expensive.
Yea -- last time I had fancy paper, raised ink, and three colors. It wasn't cheap.