>>11124259Printing on legs makes the legs harder to reuse for something else. Look at picrel. Those legs can hardly be used for anything other than a prisoner. Plain white legs could be used for a civilian, knight, astronaut, pirate, Stormtrooper, sailor, etc and would still look just fine on a prisoner. Leg printing has become too common in recent years to the point that it's hard to make custom minifigs, when it used to be that minifigs only occasionally had leg printing so you always had plenty of generic parts.
Also it's cheaper for them to make.
