diff --git a/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/def_json_formatter.py b/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/def_json_formatter.py
index c74f077249..0421b8547d 100644
--- a/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/def_json_formatter.py
+++ b/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/def_json_formatter.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ METADATA_SORT_PRIORITY = {
 
 
 class DefJsonFormatter(FileFormatter):
-    def format(self, file: Path):
+    def formatFile(self, file: Path):
         """ Format .def.json files according to the rules in settings.
 
         You can assume that you will be running regex on standard formatted json files, because we load the json first and then
diff --git a/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/formatter.py b/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/formatter.py
index 1425825a82..c668744f42 100644
--- a/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/formatter.py
+++ b/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/formatter.py
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ class FileFormatter(ABC):
         self._settings = settings
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def format(self, file: Path) -> None:
+    def formatFile(self, file: Path) -> None:
         pass
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diff --git a/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/inst_cfg_formatter.py b/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/inst_cfg_formatter.py
index fc6ccf3c81..c4113bcb48 100644
--- a/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/inst_cfg_formatter.py
+++ b/printer-linter/src/printerlinter/formatters/inst_cfg_formatter.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from .formatter import FileFormatter
 
 class InstCfgFormatter(FileFormatter):
-    def format(self, file: Path):
+    def formatFile(self, file: Path):
         """ Format .inst.cfg files according to the rules in settings """
         config = configparser.ConfigParser()
         config.read(file)
diff --git a/printer-linter/src/terminal.py b/printer-linter/src/terminal.py
index 3591d841a4..6e6d1af4e5 100644
--- a/printer-linter/src/terminal.py
+++ b/printer-linter/src/terminal.py
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ def applyFormattingToFile(file: Path, settings) -> None:
 
     if ext == "def.json":
         formatter = DefJsonFormatter(settings)
-        formatter.format(file)
+        formatter.formatFile(file)
 
     if ext == "inst.cfg":
         formatter = InstCfgFormatter(settings)
-        formatter.format(file)
+        formatter.formatFile(file)
 
 
 def extractFilePaths(paths: List[Path]) -> List[Path]: