How do i turn off imessage on my iMac?

I am getting iMessages on my computer, I don't want to get them on my computer, I want them on my iPhone

Hi bnichols75,
A quick question about that - I had discovered that same process you described above, BUT in my scenario (I have 3 iMacs, and one of the is at our Business and we don't want our employees reading our imessages, but want them to benefit from the syncing of all the other things like Calendar, Emails etc, which we have been doing for the last 3 years).  My question is:  Will signing out of icloud (from within preferences in imessage) aside from simply "unselecting enable", then sign me out of all icloud features?  Or will it simply just deactivate imessage because it's being done from within the Preferences inside of iMessage?  I want to make sure that doing the "sign out of iCloud", (from within the imessage application) that it wont sign the entire imac out of iCloud because we still want our business imac to have access to all the other cloud features, like the apps, calendar, email etc.  Just NOT the iMessages. 
Sorry, I bet this is written more confusingly than it needed to be, but hope you understand what I'm asking.  Thanks in advance!

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