Imagewriter II with a PC

[pads@ravel.udel.edu (Lord High Bit Counter of The Robotic Imperium)]

I purchased a PC-clone about 9 months ago, and wanted to use my Imagewriter
with it as a printer. Knowing nothing about serial ports, etc, I took one
look at the vastly different cables and gave up. Now I have found a small
adapter cable that is Apple Serial on one end, and IBM 25 pin serial on the
other. I also have a 25 to 9 pin IBM serial cable. In my mind, hooking all
of these together should give me a functioning printer, because just 
hooking up an ancient Citizen printer to my parallel port functions.
To test the printer I have a small text file the I try to copy to the
printer in DOS:
C:\TEXTFILE>copy test.txt com2
General Failure Writing to COM2
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!
If you know what I need to do please respond to this article or post a 
followup. Do I need to install a special driver or something?
Is there a way to get it set up for windows at least?
Am I fighting a lost cause?
Any help will be met with Undying gratitiude.
Thanks
Steve Padbury