Exposure TImes and Black Point

Walker, I am going to test Malde-Ware and since I’ve not done printing out processes before I am wondering what is the recommended way to determine the minimum exposure for maximum density. Pradip’s description above for determining base exposure seems very similar (identical?) to the way Keith described it in this post (and the way I’ve been doing it for “traditional” develop-out Pt. / Pd.): Can I use 129 step target to calculate print times??

thanks,
Michael