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Shannon, as Phil said, empty your cup....forget about the ZS or you will continue to be plagued by these doubts.
The "correct" density depends on what you are using for printing, your style and your requirements. For example I print in pt/pd, my "zone III" is anywhere from .6 to .9. I have "moved" all the values up the curve because of the requirements for good prints in pt/pd.
If you are using silver and you have made your paper and film tests correctly, the plotter will give you the correct development times to fit the shadows with detail. You then have to make a judgement value to fine tune the process, in my case I chose to use a personal speed point of 2.6 instead of 2.4, I want beefy negatives.
If you want to see how your paper compares to a "normal" paper, use the comparator in the plotter, this will give you a very good indication of where your shadows are falling, in your paper as well as a "normal" paper with your film tests.
I purposely did not answer your question because I would like you to get used to start thinking in BTZS terms. As Phil said, the ZS was and is a good tool, but we have something much better now, but it requires to "forget" much of what we learned in the ZS.
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