Thanks for the answers!
The leg printing must have been a recent change, then.
For the longest time, I remembered the printing getting cut off, like this:
Or not even having lower leg printing, like in the Chima minifigs:
I guess that just goes to show how far Lego has gone with their printing quality!
Question: Is the lower leg printing just for Special Minifigs, though? The one you referenced was part of the minifigure series…