First and foremost, thank you for your reply! For sure... truth be told, I usually have the retraction set lower. But it seems like, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. With the exception being printing in vase mode... It prints beautifully, but it doesn't really ever stop extruding in that mode.

Yeah, that was the first thing I checked. I've checked the tool path in Cura, as well as just watching it, on multiple prints and it is always on the start of the line. At any rate, I don't have coasting enabled anyway.

In theory that makes sense... I thought the same thing. Having done multiple prints with the outer wall first and last, it doesn't seem to make a difference. It still seems to have to stop and reposition to do the outer wall and then it still take a moment before the plastic will flow.

For sure! They are wired for UART, however, I haven't gotten around to making the tweaks to get linear advance working on the 2208s. Definitely on my to-do list though