I'm a bit down on masking tape at the moment as it's caused me problems with two aspects of a current build. Firstly I used blue painter's masking tape to hold some cramping blocks in position, when I pulled it off the tape took some fibres from the face of the project with it! Luthiers apparently are ultra careful when it comes to removing masking tape, they tease up one corner and then slowly pull it away, checking all the time for lifting fibres, I now understand why! The second masking tape problem was because this particular project has legs that emerge through the top, so the end grain on the top of legs is showing, instead of pencilling a cabinet maker's triangle direct on to the top of the legs as I'd normally do, I wrote the leg orientation on masking tape and stuck it to the top of each of the four legs, When I removed the tape it was clear that the tape's adhesive had penetrated the end grain and left a mark. With only 3mm to play with I didn't want to take a block plane to it, so set to trying to sand it out and also cleaning with meths. It's all come good but it was a lot of extra work on a project that was only marginally profitable to begin with. Either of these problems on veneered panels or small box components would have been disastrous, luckily this was a decent sized piece of furniture so I got away with it. I'll make sure I spend a bit more to get quality masking tape in future and be more careful.
Another vote for Tesa tape by the way for veneer work. You'll wince when you see the price, but it's the only easily removed tape I've found which is guaranteed not to leave an impression in the surface of the veneer after pressing. Life's a little easier with the far lower pressures of a vac bag versus a hydraulic press, but even so I've seen many instances where the entire veneered surface had to be removed because the impression left by the tape ran so deep it couldn't be sanded out.