Journal Sylver Dragon's Journal: Network Cable management 4

Come August, my department is moving to a shiny, brand new building. Actully, it's mostly underground, so it's not very shiny, but it will have solar panels, and those shine (yay, green building designs!)
Anyhow, as part of the pre-move hoopla, we (the institute's IT staff) get to play around with wiring up our patch panel to our switches. Other than the general cool factor of having a building chock full of Cat-6 wiring (even the phone jacks are wired with Cat-6), we view this as a great opportunity to get a good control on the layout of our network.
Now, the actually running of the wire in the conduit is being done by a professional company, but they are only bringing it to the patch panel, we have to put the patch cables from there to the switches. Also, the jacks will be numbered and those numbers listed on the patch panel. Now, maybe it's just me, but I find tracking a wire from the patch panel to the switch can be a PITA when you have several hundered drops, and a good cable management system for your patch cables. To that end, I have talked my supervisor into the idea of labeling each individual patch cable, so that we can quickly find what wall jack is going to what port on the switch.
So, here's the thing, we have one of those basic lable makers, which print nicely printed lables on a white background, but this just seems like a poor way to do cable labeling. Each cable would have either a bit of label wrapped around it, and a sort of flag hanging off; or, each cable would have a label applied along the cable, but there is the worry that the label will peel off over time. So, what do other people do in this case? So far, I've not really found any other options. At the moment, the best idea I can come up with is to place the labels along the cable, and then wrap them in a layer of clear packing tape, or some such.
One point worth noting, we will probably be using pre-fabricated patch cables, so any solution would have to be able to fit over the plug.
I do remember seeing a shrink-wrap type label cover on cables in my previous job, but I think those only worked when you could put them on before the end was put on.